Three simple and fun storymaking ideas to create stories with your students
During the planning stage of the Storymaking workshop I did with David Heathfield, I thought of so many activities I tried during the years… it was such a long list! But of course, I had to choose and select just a couple of activities for the workshop, and leave out so many others that I love. So I thought… why not write an article for my blog with a couple more ideas?
Nurturing young minds through creative storytelling - IATEFL YLTSIG Mini-course
It was around lunch time a couple of months ago, not long after the first edition of ‘Storytelling in Education – Global Online Conference’ – and after all the excitement and the work behind the scenes for the conference, things were quiet. I was talking about storytelling with my partner, and saying how I wished I could do always more with it, and share my passion and ideas with always more people… my phone buzzed. I picked it up and looked at it – a new message from my storytelling friend Manuela!
Storytelling in ELT: teaching grammar through stories. Ep. 2!
In this second edition of the ‘Storytelling in ELT: teaching grammar through stories’ workshop, we looked at how to teach grammar in a creative and fun way using storytelling.
Just like all my other storytelling workshops for teachers - whether they lean more on being ELT/ESL workshops or storytelling workshops - it was a hands-on teacher training workshop, to acquire english teaching resources and then immediately experiment with the ideas and concepts learnt…