Listening skills are enhanced, increased concentration and ability to recall information strengthened.
	Oral speaking skills are developed, self-expression, self-esteem and self-confidence increased.
	Develop the ability to interpret events beyond an immediate experience.
	Share and create an experience that is both common to the assembled group and yet is an exceptionally personal experience.
	Contribute to the social and cognitive development through a shared experience - to feel joy for another’s happiness or sadness at their misfortune
	Reading stories improves language skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing and story recall, and children become familiar with the characteristic rhythms and structures of language and story.
	Writing is enhanced as students hear and tell their own stories. Standard story components such as beginning and ending, plot, characters, setting, and theme come more naturally to children who listen to story.
	Storytelling promotes inventive thinking and problem-solving skills, expands the imagination and broadens student’s knowledge base.
	Hearing stories from around the world creates an awareness and appreciation of other ethnic cultures.
	It gives a means of structure to the individual’s daydreams and fantasies.
	Storytelling fulfills many of the state-mandated educational guidelines not only in Language Arts but in Science, Social Studies, but even in Mathematics
	Storytelling enhances existing school events – Book Fairs, Family Reading Nights, Native American Days, Pioneer Days, Multicultural Days, Earth Days, Red Ribbon Week, Catholic Schools Week, American Education Week, and more.
	Storytelling introduces many standard unit lessons – The Holocaust, The Depression, WW2, Rainforests and other biomes, and more.
	Useful study guides give teachers ideas to bring back to the classroom and spark their own creativity to develop extension activities on their own.
	Many stories fit into character development themes advocated by the schools.
	To expand the young person’s worldview in a non-threatening atmosphere.
	Help the appreciation of the child’s own heritage and that of others