Amongst many popular activities, listening to and telling stories is fundamental to every early years setting. Apart from being fun and exciting, storytelling has many functions in children's development, helping them to make sense of the world and organize events and experience. Children often retell their adventures as stories, from the simple event of having dinner to major happening such as falling down the stairs! The story organizes events from past and as they happen, and both the story and its telling convey important information about relationships, thoughts and feelings and the children's personal life in general. This book contains simple but creative ideas to help practitioners prompt and aid storytelling for and with the children in their setting.
Author Biography
Judit is the manager of Olympus KeyMed Day Nursery in Southend-on-Sea. She has a background in Early Years education with expertise in Play work and the Forest School movement. She has also attained the following qualifications: Early Years Professional Status; Postgraduate Certificate in Play Therapy (currently studying for Postgraduate Diploma); Child Psychology Level 4; Postgraduate Certificate in Play work; Forest School; Leader Level 3; Beach School Leader Level 3 and is currently a part time PhD student (project: young children's drawings). Judit has written many articles for EYE magazine, Practical Preschool and Teach Nursery magazine and has two other books in the 50 Fantastics series.
