"A story can take you anywhere in your imagination--places a movie never can." My mother told me this from an early age. She explained to me that, movies limit the imagination of the viewer. While watching a movie, the viewer is watching another persons "take" on a story. But a written story does not have limits, the reader is free to interpret and "go" wherever the mind takes them.
When I was a child, my mother was an avid reader. She was "famous" for reading novels within a day, or two. She also loved to read to my brother and I. It was a great bonding experience. As I grew older, I developed a love for reading and writing. I really understood what she meant by, "a book can take you places a movie can't." This has proven true each time I hear someone exclaim: "I liked the book better than the movie."
This week in class we read a resource titled: "The Science of Storytelling." This resource states that telling/writing/reading a story "fires" up the brain better and faster than just stated facts bullet pointed in a text.
Pre-schoolers love nothing more than to sit at "circle time" and hear stories. This is also true when it comes to families at home. Reading to kids makes them smarter, while giving them a model and encouragement to become avid readers themselves.
There is definitely an "art" to the tradition of storytelling. School age children deserve to be read too, regardless of age.
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