Storytelling is a popular performing art in India. Each region has developed its own style and tradition of story telling in various regional languages combining musical compositions between narrations. Indian fables, mythology, folk tales and epics which provide an incredible source of children’s stories.

These storytelling techniques are an invaluable teaching tool for teachers, especially for those working with early years as it would help them to inspire and develop children’s reading and narrative skills. Children remember stories and sequences of movement better if they are combined with dance, music and storytelling and they are more confident and uninhibited when encouraged and involved in the sessions. Through these sessions Pushpanjali would offer them training in techniques such as:

1.     Hand gestures showing various objects and elements of nature.

2.     Facial expressions demonstrating different emotions.

3.     Dance steps depicting animal movements.

The training sessions will enhance teachers’ professional development. It will develop their confidence and enable them to make stories entertaining and interesting by narrating them in a stylised and expressive form. They help develop fundamental early learning skills while exposing children to other cultures.