Improve story telling skills?
816876
start writing poems and read them with feeling, itä'll help you slow down and give life to your story telling beleive it or not!\nGood luck!
630539
I don't know but...\n\nOn your other question (writing a story), what did you write the story about? Don't care if it was another idea, am just curious.\n\nMusic - you're probably best getting Limewire or something.
255243
Might I suggest a speech class? \n\nIf your writing is any indication of your public speaking skills, then you definitely need some help.\n\nGo to your local community college and enroll in a Speech 101 class. You might even learn some "openers" while you are improving your speaking skills!
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I am not sure what age group you are dealing with. I guess it does not matter, the skill building does. However if your child is in an upper grade and you find skill building things that are a few grade behind, you will need to explain to her what you are trying to achieve, or get creative in hiding it. You may want to look at some of the sites, see what they are trying to accomplish and adjust the content and  the vocabulary. Remember writing is a process, you will need to get the child used to the idea the writing becomes good when you revise it for clarity and accuracy. One thing i did notice with my daughter was  the idea of getting it all together in one step was enough to freeze her in place. The idea, the spelling, the punctuation, grammar, and making it all flow and sound right can be a lot to think about. Do it in steps. Providing a list of correctly spelled  words to refer to can make this easier at first.\nAlso try reading a little and have her write a sentence or two to complete the story, change the ending, and so forth. \nBelow are some links that may help.
536363
well find something you like to do, shop, dine out, swimming and make up a short story about it.. ie a script and then either have friends act in it or just do it as a documentry or something like that. good luck
943573
i am sorry to say this but there is no other way except practice and read a lot of novels to increase your knowledge and vocab. when you do practice just one or two journals a day and read at least 30 pages of a book a day then you will increase your capability in writing\nwhen the time comes to write things you can easily write\n\n4 steps: plan what to write, write down, re-write (checking the mistakes and etc), and edit
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A 'narration' is only an account, describing incidents or events. \n...If your assignment merely involves retelling what had actually happened, try to briefly narrate all the incidents in their chronological order.\n...But if you have to discuss about what a person, or people, must have thought and felt about something, then you must begin by outlining the background of that person/people, the cause/impact of that something, and their varied reactions to it ! \n...First arrange all the points you are going to say, in their correct logical sequence [preferably as notes on paper], and then express each one of your points in separate paragraphs of not more than 3 simple sentences each, in your OWN words.\n...When completed, read what all you have written to check whether you have omitted any details, or whether you have repeated the same point twice - and correct all such mistakes and oversights. \nPut the whole passage through a spell-check, and style-check as well - and your narrative passage is, at last, ready !
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Write your story in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Wordpad, etc.\n\nWhen it's finished, go onto FF.net and click the "Documents" button. Upload your story file from there. \n\nNext, go to "Stories." Click the "New Story" button in the upper right-hand corner. It will tell you to accept the Guidelines. Click the button, read and accept the terms. Click "New Story" once again.\n\nNow, it will take you step-by-step. Choose the catagory and sub catagories, then fill in the rest as asked. At the "Document" tab, select the document you uploaded previously and finally, click "Submit Story." Presto!\n\nTo add chapters, upload your file into the "Documents" section. Then go to "Stories" and choose the story you want to add the chapter to by pressing the "edit" button next to it. \n\nNext, click "Content/Chapters." It will show you your existing chapter(s), and below it will say "Add Chapter." Type in the chapter title and select the document using the pull down tab. Click "Add" and voila, the chapter is added to your story.\n\nHope this helped!
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It depends on where you are.  Check out the library or community center in your area and you may find volunteers who are willing to help you.  Read newspapers and magazines - good places to start.  If you have children, or know children, read to them.  If you don't know any  children see if there is a volunteer program at your library where you can read to kids a couple of times a week - many libraries have a story time.  \n\nAs a previous poster indicated, if you wrote your question yourself, your English sounds pretty good.\n\nBest of luck with it.
751954
get the children to read read read read read make sure what they read is interesting, and of a high quality, \n pick interesting fantasy or fictional stories and read them with vigour\n\ncreative writing is 99% inspiration and 1% convention\n the conventions are important but when the children are involved and passionate then they will be most interested in going through the editing and self-correction process which is how they will best learn convention\n\ntalk them through the process of beggining a story, give them perhaps a few beggings, some could be time oriented- long ago... once upon a time... three years ago...  etc.\n\nfind inspiring ideas for them to base their stories on\nuse materials, photographs, objects, guided visualisation, fantasy settings, interesting science fiction ideas, whatever you can dream up to help inspire them\n\nperhaps you could tie it in with the sport they are doing, or the social studies area they are learning about\n\n\n an interesting beggining would be for the children to watch a little bit of the surfing movie- biggest wednesday, (50ft plus face waves) where the surfers towed in by jet-ski and the helicopters watching were dwarfed by the waves -\nand to get them to write from there\n\n as soon as the children have the idea of making stories up-(which most will) they will be able to have far more freedom\n\n a great exercise is to ask the children to give you a list of the ten top words they would use in a story, and then tell them they have to write a story without using these words\n some will struggle, others will relish the challenge, with support all will learn and develop\n\n(if the children struggle with handwriting you may need to set minumum legth requirement and convention guidlines before- hand, as they may write a few sentences and tell you they have finished, these will be useless if the children are not inspired and they will come up with all sorts of strategies to avoid them, however if you can really inspire them these will be easy to help them to achieve.)\n\nonce they have dived in, then it is time to start talking about grammer and paragraphing and sentencing or whatever level they are at\n\nif you can build passion with the entire class about this activity\nthey are already successful and your job will be easy
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try talking about something you are interested in or you enjoy doing.  or if you want, try talking about a movie you just saw.\n\nyou can review a movie or tv show.  you can give a short summary of the story and give reasons why you liked or hated it.  the trick to speaking tasks is to be able to share something interesting with your audience and at the same time EXPLAIN why it is interesting.\n\ngood luck. = )
705307
1.  Get a part time job.  \n\n2.  Do you have relatives?\n\n3.  Contact your local paper and see if they want to do a story on you.
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I think just some basic stories.  Many children's books are entirely in the simple present tense.  Try baby books or easy readers.  Hilight the verbs and demonstrate in class.  Have you heard of Total Physical Response Storytelling?  It's a fantastic way to teach languages.\n\nDon't listen to the jerks who answered this question.  I am a teacher and know where you're coming from.  I can't believe some people act like such idiots!  Hey, tarotpete, check your example sentence.  You need to remove the "a" for it to make sense!  LMAO!   Nice!  And bo_hic_a, if you think teachers are overpaid, why don't you try it?  We'll see if you last five minutes in front of a classroom full of teenagers!\n\nGood luck!
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If you want to improve your writing, here are 3 things:\n\n1. Read some really good literature, like the American or British classics.  I find that immersing myself in great literature spills over to my writing style.\n\n2. Read Writer's Digest Magazine. http://www.writersdigest.com/ .  It is fantastic.  Also, view their book list.  They have some awesome titles for improving your writing.\n\n3. Take as many creative writing and English courses as possible in college.  They can be wonderful and enlightening, and extremely helpful.\n\nHope this helps!
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be really funny and make up stories.. you will be more likely to get on.. but i would try oprah instead
757983
Art of narrating a story takes lot of imgination and presentation style....and I must admit that you have been blessed with them to come up with such a nice story! Ha Ha Ha ...........it was too funny ... One can imagine how the Parrot \nmust felt, seeing  the dressed Chicken in the Fridge !! Excellent One !!!
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Show and tell is a good way to develop many skills at once.  I have worked at a pre school now for 7 years and I know that we use a lot of different tools for developing those skills.  \nWe have special devices that we purchase that allow them to lace beads of diffeernt sizes on pcs of rope.  We have boards that they can lace like shoe lacing.  Puzzles of different types and sizes.  \nReading stores and asking questions such as what do you think will happen next etc.\nWe also have a show and tell day where the kids can bring something and talk about it and then the class gets to ask 3 questions.  We also have story day where the kids can get up and tell a story if they like to.\nAll these things help develop language and other skills that are essential to their early development.