5 simple guidelines for effective storytelling
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Are you aSunday School
Teacher?
Is storytelling stopping you from being a
Sunday School Teacher?
Then, read on…By the end of
the show,
you will have the confidence
to teach Sunday School.
Presenting….
5 Simple Guidelines for Effective Storytelling
How to tell a story effectively so you can be understood
by your class.
#1Prepare and
practice your story.
#1 Practice and prepare your story.
a. Identify the purposeIf you are clear about
the purpose of the story, you will less likely wander off the story.
#1 Practice and prepare your story.
b. Outline the story.Identify major events that occurred in the story.
#1 Practice and prepare your story.
c. Review the story.Review the story so that each point in the outline will remind you of the events.
#1 Practice and prepare your story.
d. PracticePractice telling the story to someone or to the mirror. Use words that the children can easily understand.
#2Capture interest
at the start.
A good beginning is important.
#2 Capture interest at the start.
It is easier to capture the interest of an audience
at the beginning than to recapture it after
their attention has wandered off.
#2 Capture interest at the start.
Have you used this question to begin your story?
#2 Capture interest at the start.
What was our story last week?
The surest way to kill the interest of your audience is
to ask this question!
#2 Capture interest at the start.
What was our story last week?
If this week’s story is connected to last week’s story, you can shake your
children’s memories as you go along the story.
#2 Capture interest at the start.
Begin your story with a question that the
children know about.
#2 Capture interest at the start.
Example:Who loves to eat
vegetables?You can ask this question
if your story is about Daniel.
#2 Capture interest at the start.
#3Have a clear objective .
You must make the point of your story
clear to the children.
#3 Have a clear objective.
No matter how lively you tell a Bible story,
it will have little impact unless the
point of the story is clear to you and the
children.
#3 Have a clear objective.
Keep your story brief.
#3 Have a clear objective.
#4Teach from the
Bible.
Always hold a Bible when teaching, and not your outline or
the teaching material.
#4 Teach from the Bible.
When teaching, children need to see
you as teaching God’s word.
#4 Teach from the Bible.
#5Pray.
Pray before and after the class.
#5 Pray.
Hope this presentation helps you in your Sunday
School teaching.
Feel free to leave a comment if you have other suggestions or questions.
More presentations to come.
Topics will be:1. How to Plan your Story
Sequence2. How to Make Your Story
Come Alive3. How to Help Kids Look up the
Bible4. More Tips on How to Capture
Interest at the Start
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