Learning Through Storytelling

100 Story Building is a social enterprise developing creativity and literacy for children and young people, through workshop programs, online learning and community engagement.

The Child Development Institute outlines benefits of storytelling for children such as language skills, memory, and new worlds to experience. There are useful suggestions on how to get started in engaging kids, how to develop storytelling skills, and choosing stories to tell.

Imagine Forest offers interactive, fun-filled storytelling activities for kids such as storytelling prompts jars, using maps, DIY finger puppets, story stones, and story cubes.

My Little Bookcase provides parents and educators with inspiration to engage children in reading, writing and other literacy-based activities in meaningful ways. One of the ideas is constructing a simple puppet theatre for kids and teaching them how to tell a story through using props, prompts, and their own imagination.

Scholastic provides suggestions and activities for kids who are starting out with storytelling. The activities recommended include telling the story of a well-known fairy tale or nursery rhyme as a family, using a simple puppet theatre, and using a story box to tell a story.

Stories podcast provides a long list of engaging stories for kids to listen to. Stories include King of the Frogs, Wiggly in Walt Disney World, the Mighty Shadow, and Grahamquackers.

Do your children like listening to a story? Story Time has lots of great stories for everyone to listen to.

Each story is usually less than 20 minutes long, hopefully just long enough to keep your toddler, preschoolers, and little ones engaged.

This resource contains 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. Students can read the Frog King, or Iron Henry, Our Lady's Child, the Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, the Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, and many other enchanting stories.

Kids Gen provides the best selection of fairy tales list that will enchant the young minds with positivity of the most popular fairy tales. These fables and fairy tale characters have been collected from different cultures.

World of Tales is the online fairy tale page offering fairy tales presented in all cultures around the world. The selection includes Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, the Goose Girl, and many other tales that capture imagination of all children.

From Parents.com, Author, teacher, and FamilyFun blogger Emily Neuburger shares crafts and activities for sparking kids' imaginations.