Benefits Of Telling Stories To Children

Pinocchio is one of the most classic children’s stories. It tells us the story of a wooden doll that comes to life thanks to a good fairy who fulfills the wish of the old man Gepetto. Gepetto sends Pinocchio to school, but Pinocchio, instead of going to school, gets into many complications due to his lies and disobedience. Finally, Pinocchio becomes obedient and the good fairy rewards him by turning him into a real boy.

Therefore, what this story teaches children is the courage to speak the truth, be obedient and sincere, and act with love. Values ​​are only part of the benefits that stories can bring to children. The other part has to do with: the development of creativity, the habit of reading, improving writing and creating moments of complicity and intimacy.

Learning values

Children have a great knack for learning, as their insatiable curiosity does much of the work. Thus, we can use the stories to teach them values ​​such as friendship, respect, sincerity, generosity, modesty, loyalty … In this way they will acquire in a simple and fun way the knowledge that refers to what.

Through stories, children learn to know other characters, other cultures and other ways of thinking and feeling, which will help them to know why they feel a certain way or why there are people who are different because of their religion. for their culture and values.

Improves reading comprehension and benefits the habit of reading

Reading stories to our children helps to improve their reading comprehension, as a basic skill that unfolds in a series of related capacities: handling of orality, taste for reading and critical thinking. The development of reading comprehension provides children with the necessary tools for academic, work and social life.

Knowing how to read is not only having the ability to interpret some spellings and pronounce them correctly, but it means having the ability to understand what is read, to know what the author means and to form an opinion about it. Therefore, it is about giving a meaning to the text that is read and drawing your own conclusions.

Share moments of complicity with children

If every day we share a moment of reading with our children, we will strengthen the bond of complicity and affection with them. This makes it easier for children to have a security on which to build good self-esteem.

Writing improvement

Reading and writing are closely related to each other, a good reader is usually a good writer. Writing allows the children’s thoughts to be organized, facilitating the habit of thinking and expressing themselves in a relational way. Writing also improves concentration and reflection, as it requires special attention.

A debate that has started, in relation to handwriting, arose when the Finnish education system decided to replace for the 2016/2017 school year the learning of manual writing by typing classes on the QWERTY keyboard. But, although new technologies tend to eliminate handwriting, we cannot forget some of the benefits that this way of writing brings: it facilitates concentration, our brain is activated, it allows us to take our time to think about what we want to say, It facilitates the structuring of language and has to do with a more natural movement for us than pressing keys or screens.

Scientists at the University of Indiana carried out some experiments that proved that writing by hand activates more regions of the brain and favors the learning of shapes, symbols and languages. In addition, according to the study authors, handwriting helps to better express thoughts and ideas.

Finally, let’s not forget that we all have our handwriting. It may be more or less clear, but it will always be a unique way that will identify us.

Increased creativity

Creativity is the generation of new ideas or concepts or of new associations between known ideas and concepts, which usually produce original solutions.

Reading stories provides our little ones with the necessary ingredients for their imagination to start and questions appear, without being accompanied by the need to solve them to respond to a real situation. In addition, through stories they will meet imaginary places, fantastic characters and they will learn that imagination has no limits.