Storytelling in Competence-oriented Education	Story Selection
	I need help?		Storytelling
	Civic education	Story Structure	Story Presentation
	Basic education	Storytelling Space	Learning scenarios
		Involvement of Learners	StoryCollection
		Support of Competence Development

             

Module -Storytelling

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SUMMARY

• The four cornerstones of a story are the main character(s), the place, the dilemma andthe end.
• The simplest story structure consists of 3 acts: beginning, middle and end.
• According to the structure of a story, we use a five-part story skeleton:
1. Beginning (who and where)
2. Rising action (dilemma)
3. Climax
4. Falling action
5. Ending
• Try to visualise the story, remember the images and describe them in your own words.
• Use the most concrete language possible to bring your story to life.
• Stimulate the audience’s senses by describing some details: They should see vivid pictures, feel, smell, touch and listen.
• Describe the characters: Tell the story in such a way that the listener may optimally identify with the main character (s) and the initiatives, obstacles & risks met, and the choices/decisions to be made
• Distinguish between the experience of the main character, the story teller and the listener.
• Stories can be told from different perspectives: as a course of events, as an experience of (one of) the main character(s) or as an experience of the storyteller an/or the listeners.
• There are several possibilities for a storyteller to generate interest through the structure like switching the perspective, using uncertainty, adding unexpected events etc.