Tell Me a Story
Why are stories important for a child’s development? From the development of emotional intelligence, creativity, and imagination, to language and vocabulary, these are a few of the important things that reading stories can do for children. Whether at home or in the classroom, the development of these areas carries the same importance. Below you’ll find reading suggestions from Creative Editions.
Stories help with the development of emotional intelligence and have the power to promote emotional and moral development, too. The skill of making moral decisions and the reasoning for those decisions is an important skill for children to see modeled. In Erika’s Story, the reader is taken on a journey to understand the choice her parents made when sparing her from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Encourage creativity and imagination with Pirates at the Plate, a story of pirates and cowboys and the imagination of youth. In Taste the Clouds, sensory experiences are swapped in imaginative ways that encourage readers to consider different ways of thinking about the world.
Support language development and vocabulary with rhythmic text as readers and listeners are prompted to act out the command in Simon Says, Open the Book. Companion titles include I Spy with My Curious Eye and Ready or Not, Here I Come!
Related articles:
https://www.luther.edu/oneota-reading-journal/archive/2012/the-value-of-childrens-literature/
https://www.amatterofstyle.eu/inspire-me/books-important-childs-development
Posted September 26, 2022