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Here are some of the standards in grades K-6 that oral storytelling can help teach.
California Content Standards that can be enhanced with storytelling
George Pilling, Supervisor of Library Media Services, Visalia Unified School District
Kindergarten:
Reading
Comprehension
2.2
Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content.
2.3
Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts.
2.4
Retell familiar stories
Literary
Response and Analysis
3.1
Distinguish fantasy from realistic text
3.3
Identify characters, settings, and key events
Listening
and Speaking
1.0
Students
listen and respond to oral communication
Grade
One
Reading
Comprehension
2.0
Identify
text which uses sequence and/or logical order
2.2
Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions
2.5
Confirm predictions about what will happen next in text by identifying key words
2.7
Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages
Literary
Response and Analysis
3.1
Identify and describe the story elements of plot, setting, and characters,
including the story’s beginning, middle, and ending
3.3
Recollect, talk, and write about books read during the school year
Listening
and Speaking
1.1
Listen
attentively
2.2
Retell stories
Grade
Two
Literary
Response and Analysis
3.2
Generate alternative endings to plots
3.3
Compare and contrast different versions of the same stories that reflect
different cultures
Listening
and Speaking
1.1
Determine
the purposes for listening
1.8
Retell stories, including characters, setting, and plot
2.1
Present stories that move through a logical sequence of events and describe
story elements
Grade
Three
Literary
Response and Analysis
3.2
Comprehend basic plots of classic fairy tales, myths, folktales, legends, and
fables from around the world
Listening
and Speaking
1.1
Retell,
paraphrase, and explain what has been said by a speaker
2.2
Plan and present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or
plays
Grade
Four
Listening
and Speaking
1.2
Summarize
major ideas and supporting evidence
1.3
Identify how language reflects regions and cultures
1.9
Use volume, pitch, phrasing, pace, modulation, and gestures appropriately to
enhance meaning
Grade
Five
Reading
Comprehension
2.2
Analyze text which is organized in sequential or chronological order
2.3
Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing
evidence that supports those ideas
Listening
and Speaking
1.3
Interpret
speaker’s verbal and non-verbal messages, purposes, and perspectives
Grade
Six
Listening
and Comprehension
1.1
Relate
the speaker’s verbal communication and non-verbal messages
1.2
Identify
the tone, mood, and emotion conveyed in the oral communication
1.7
use effective rate, volume, pitch, and tone, and align non-verbal elements to
sustain audience interest and attention
1.8
Analyze the use of rhetorical devices for their intent and effects (e.g.
cadence, repetitive phrases, onomatopoeia)
And
these types of standards continue into the upper grades….
Other
elements of Language arts that are enhanced by storytelling:
Listening
Skills
Vocabulary
Distinguishing
main idea
Sequencing
and predicting
Determining
theme
Reading
fluidity and expression
Idiomatic
speech
Cultural
knowledge
