Story Telling/Narrative as a Method of Teaching and Learning in Primary Education

Stories are part of the oral heritages and pupils' experiences told and untold through the ages to the young by old age.(Barker and Gwarinda 1996).
Story telling entertains and educates listeners in primary school and marked efforts on the child 's social and moral growth.
When presenting lesson on story telling consider the ability level of children and the story must focus on the objectives of the lesson.
The content should be presented logically and systematically through choosing suitable words and ideas. The story teller must first have probing questions to identify the knowledge of the learners related to the story, so as to think with the new matter.When telling the story should know the story well,and speak fluently.
The important parts of the story must be emphasizes whilst making tone variations of the voice and different expressions.
It is necessary to avoid mannerism like "alright,aah,its like ,ok" and the story must be short and precise to avoid boredom and retain interests of listiners.
Well presented stories give joyment and train children in primary schools to be imaginative,improve listening skills and broaden experience of cultures.
If children frequently given the time to tell stories in the class help them to gain composure ,self confidence and fluency in speaking.
However ,if stories are not interesting pupils will not pay their attention.The stories must suit the listening span of the children ,for instance long stories are not suitable for infants.Also avoid story to have too many characters which may confuse children.
Stories should not over dramatised to meet the objectives of the lesson to be achieved.Narrative method for languages as it also guards the content of the linguistic ability.