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Inayatun Nissah bt Abdul Kathar (036358)

4) STEPS TO BE A GOOD STORYTELLER

1. Understand your audience ; speak in an authentic voice

- Write or tell a story after knowing who are the reader or listener to your story.

2. Get your facts straight with 5 Ws.

- These five questions can helps you define the shape and structure of your story.

- Who is your story about?  -Know your character and what is your story about.

- What happens in your story?  -You should understand what is going to happen and how the storyline will be going.

- When does your story takes place? Is it in the present day, in the future  or in the past?  -This will help you to determine the verb tense, point of view and others.

- Where does your story takes place?  -A sense of place helps your audience put actions in context.

- Why did your story happen?  -What were the motivating factors and what set your story in motion?

- Addition of the H (how the story happen) may be not necessary but it is worth considering.

- Don’t be slavishly devoted to the questions and end up with phrases like “this story takes place on a dark and stormy sea on March 2nd.”. Instead, answer the questions indirectly when telling your story.

3. The power of specifics, details and imagery.

- Facts and details provide an anchor for our attention, a seed for our imagination and a proof point to your claims.

- A skilled storyteller will direct the audience to something important and away from the insignificant.

- We perceive the world through more than our eyes and ears. Put them in that place and provide them a point of reference; the imagination will do the rest.

- Ask yourself what matters in your story and don’t waste your time on things that don’t.

4. Show, don’t tell.

- The difference about telling a story and recounting facts lies in the style of the telling. Let the audience realize something on their own and they will not only stay interested, but they’ll be more likely to believe it.

- Your focus on the interesting part of your story is the only way to keep an audience engaged with it.

5. Know the end at the beginning.

- Make an outline of your story which is a framework of plot points intended to move your story from A to Z.

- Whether you start knowing your end, od discover it when you are there, the beginning of the story should hook your audience as soon as possible.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140405112844-40671440-5-steps-to-successful-storytelling

5) STORYTELLING USING PROPS (PUPPETS)

-Using a puppet to tell a story is a wonderful way that can lead children to discover the joy of literature and learning.

- Puppets can be used anyway, anytime and anywhere to bring stories to life and to spark young imaginations.

- It doesn’t need a professional puppeteer or an expensive puppet to make puppet storytelling works. Puppets from paper cups, envelopes, plastic straws and even the simplest hand-made puppet  can be thrilling for a young child.

- The art of storytelling is about bringing stories to life and puppets provide us with a great way to do just that.

http://www.libsci.sc.edu/storytelling/techniques/collinspuppethanout.pdf

6) ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING PUPPETS.

A. ADVANTAGES.

- can stimulate children’s imagination, encourage creative play and discovery and are a wonderful interactive way to introduce narrative to even the most reluctant reader.

- puppets can provide a focus for role play, encouraging the child’s imagination and involvement in activities.

- hand puppets with workable mouths and tounges are an excellent motivational resource to inspire the teaching of phonics within literacy.

- can motivate and support children with difficulties in communication and interaction.

- can help to develop their social and motor skills, and can meet the visual, tactile and emotional meeds of the individual child.

- puppets can break down barriers and provide an effective means to initiate communication, as a child can express thoughts, fears and feelings through a puppet that they might otherwise find difficult to voice to and adult.

http://www.puppetsforeducation.co.uk/Puppets-in-Education_A7NZT.aspx

B. DISADVANTAGES

- no economize

- need complete concept

- process of making is very complicated

- time-consuming to make it

- audience seating has to be managed carefully so that everyone can have a clear view and sound carries to the last person in the audience.

http://rinqa-anwar.blogspot.com/2013/02/media-and-learning-resources.html

http://www.unesco.org/education/aladin/paldin/pdf/course02/unit_13.pdf

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Nur Hidayah Bt Adam

1)How to know when children are engaged in music and movement in the classroom?

When they are giving full of their attention when listening to the music.They will be participating in music and movement activities because there are so much fun doing that kind of stuff.It is more enjoyable and hilarious.They will be asking more questions about the music and movement activities because they want to understand better.

2)Examples of group singing and movement in the classroom.

Building Vocabulary

Increasing a child's vocabulary is one of the many benefits of music and movement activities. Words that describe movement are a fundamental part of language. Therefore, to enhance a child's movement vocabulary is to enhance a child's overall vocabulary.

Examples of these words are included in A Movement Vocabulary For Young Children from Hap Palmer's MA thesis. This vocabulary, including words that describe actions, space, energy and time, is incorporated in the Lyrics and Activities
of many of Hap Palmer's songs.

Integrating Music and Movement With Academic Curriculum

Music and movement can support the academic curriculum from pre-school through third grade. The activities use a variety of sensory modalities to engage the learner and make learning fun.

For example the teaching of word families can be combined with movement skills by playing a freeze dance based on movements from the "-op" family. This activity reinforces phonics skills as children hop, pop, stop, mop, chop, flop, and bop with the music.

You can find many activities for reinforcing reading and math skills through music and movement in the Lyrics and Activities section of this web site.

Teaching the Whole Child

Music and Movement is a way of teaching the whole child:
Mental
Physical
Emotional
Social

As children improve vocabulary and language comprehension they also improve movement skills, developing coordination, balance, strength and endurance. In this way, children are learning to move and moving to learn at the same time.

When a wide range of movement skills are applied to creative movement they expand the range of expressive possibilities enabling children to communicate through movement and respond to the mood and quality of literature, art, and music.

Music and movement activities also involve relating to others. Children share space and work individually, in partners and in small groups. They share ideas thoughts and feelings through the mediums of music and creative dance.

http://www.happalmer.com/Files/Music%20and%20Movement.html

3)Steps to do music and movement activities in the classroom.

ACTIVITY 1: Exploring Movement and Descriptive Language Learning Goal: Students will describe and demonstrate different actions with varied movement qualities. Ask students to generate two lists of words. The first will be a list of movement/action words. Challenge students to expand their list by asking questions such as, “What are different ways of walking? Jumping?” You can also show photos or videos of dancers or statues, and have them describe what they see. The second list will be of descriptive words. Depending on grade level, this might be a list you choose to produce on your own rather than brainstorm with students.

ACTIVITY 2: A Shape Game Learning Goal: Students will clearly describe the movements and/or shapes of others. Have students stand in a circle around the room; desks can stay put if needed. Select two students to stand in the center of the circle facing away from each other. Ask one of these students to make an interesting shape. The other student must then try and recreate this shape using only verbal directions from the rest of the class (no peeking!). The students around the circle should describe the shape clearly and decide as a group when the two shapes sufficiently match.

ACTIVITY 3: Freeze Dance (Self & General Space) Learning Goal: Students will dance in both self space (non-locomotor movement) and general space (locomotor movement). Have the students make two lists of words – movements that can be done in place (self space) and movements that can be done traveling (general space). If you have completed Activity 1, use these lists to get started. Some movements can only be done in one type of space. Are there any actions/movements that can be done both in self space and general space? Create a clear space in the classroom and have music ready. When the music is playing, ask the students to dance the movements that you call from the list, alternating between self and general space. When the music stops, they must freeze. In absence of music, you can also use another cue such as a clapping rhythm, visual cue, or simply saying “freeze.” With clear parameters, the activity can also be done around desks and chairs.

http://www.pnb.org/Community/Teacher/pnb-movement-activities.pdf

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Nurul Ain Afiqah binti Abdul Rahman (036218)

1) How music and movement promote children's development?

a. Social development

Through music, children can connect to their cultural heritage. This can assisting them to acquire culture belief and values. Listening to the music can expose children to their culture and provide them the opportunity to gain appreciation for them. As children create music together, they engage in a metaphorical experience. Through this process, they learn that to make beautiful music, we have to unite and work together.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/music-center-enhance-children-development/

b. Physical development

- Children require movement for their development and growth.

- Developmentally appropriate music activities involve the whole child-the child's desire for language, the body's urge to move, the brain's attention to patterns, the ear's lead in initiating communication, the voice's response to sounds, as well as the eye-hand coordination associated with playing musical instruments.

http://www.musikgarten.org/music_movement.cfm

c. Cognitive development

- Music engages the brain while stimulating neural pathways associated with such higher forms of intelligence as abstract thinking, empathy, and mathematics.

- Music's melodic and rhythmic patterns provide exercise for the brain and help develop memory.

- Music is an aural art and young children are aural learners. Since ears are fully mature before birth,so infants begin learning from the sounds of their environment before birth

http://www.musikgarten.org/music_movement.cfm

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Nur Fahimah binti Mat Lazim (036199)

1)Definition of storytelling

Storytelling is like an interactive perfomance art form.It is like a direct interaction between the teller and audience,this is the essential element of the storytelling experience.Not only that,the teller uses this generally non-verbal feedback to immediately, spontaneously, and improvisationally adjust the tones, wording, and pace of the story to better meet the needs of the audience.This is why storytelling is far more difficult than is the script and camera directions of a movie, or the lines and stage direction notes of a play.

http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/st_defn.htm

2)why storytelling

we use storytelling because by telling or explaining a story,it can  encourages the active imagination of the listeners.The listener will imagine on how the story goes from the beginning until the end of the story.Not only that,Stories are all around us.  They are what move us, make us feel alive, and inspire us. Our appetite for stories is a reflection of the basic human need to understand patterns of life not merely as an intellectual exercise but as a personal, emotional experience. Stories are the way to reach out to people and emotionally connect.This is why we use storytelling.

http://www.dragonflyeffect.com/blog/the-power-of-storytelling/

3)Steps for storytelling

There are a lot of steps on how we told a story,the first one is engage your audience.Start your storytelling by interacting with your audience or doing something to grab their attention,not only that, ask them a question, even if it's just rhetorical, that relates to the conclusion, twist, or context for the story you're going to tell.A rhetorical question is like a question to which no answer is expected.

The second steps of storytelling is,build the scene.this is like we want to tell the audience the story in a way that makes them feel like they're there.This is very imperative because we want to create an immersive experience to the audience.

The last but not least is build tension and release tension.This is like you building tension and until the climactic point in the story and the falling action of the conclusion.Without this release of tension, a story can feel rushed or too list-like,but remember is that a release of tension should come between the tension points.

http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-a-Story