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       Should You Read Aloud to Your Kids? | Intentional Inspirations       Hi all! Welcome (back) to my blog! As the graphic says above, this blog is going to be about the read aloud I did this week. Before taking this course, I believed that I had a decent background in storytelling, or at least reading aloud. I assumed this because I had read countless books  to my two daughters and had told them many stories. I thought that those experiences with them would be ample preparation for storytelling and reading aloud.  Well, I was wrong. Dead wrong. S torytelling, including reading aloud, is an art, and it requires much time and effort (Greene & Del Negro, 2010). It is definitely not as simple as selecting a picture book with a pretty cover and reading the words on the page to others.        For this assignment, storytelling with the book, I wanted to choose a book that included an entertaining story with colorful pictures. I also preferred to find a book that presented two characte

  https://www.josegalan.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/storytelling-efectivo.jpg Storytelling   Hello all! This is my very first blog post ever, and I ask that you be patient with me as I reflect on this week's module about storytelling. When I think of storytelling, the first thing that comes to mind is the many stories my mom shared about growing up in Charleston from the 1940s through the 1960s. I loved hearing her tales of summers on Sullivan's Island, wearing heels and dresses to football games, and shagging the night away. Her storytelling may not have been the caliber of professional storytelling today, but it engaged me and helped me understand how she became the incredible woman she is now. I especially loved learning more about my grandparents - their careers, community involvement, travels, and most importantly, the values that they passed on to her. As my mother reminisced about her adventures during her childhood and adolescence, I compared them to my own experience