This month the school held a first-grade storytelling competition. There were many students in the class who signed up, but there was only one place in each class. After considering all aspects, I selected one from Class 103. Girls competed, and Class 104 selected a boy to participate. He also became a small audience and listened to the wonderful stories of the children.

1. Story theme and content

It is best to choose interesting and educational picture book stories or fairy tales. The plot should be lively and interesting, with ups and downs. Stories with more language and action descriptions are also easier to express on the stage. For example, "The Sneezing Hat", "Monkey Catching the Moon", "Monkey Eating Watermelon", etc. are all very suitable for first grade students.

2. The suitability of the soundtrack

Good light music can make children’s story-telling even better.

After the children are familiar with the story, you can choose appropriate light music together with them. You can choose a few more songs at the beginning, and then read them several times with different music to see which music is more suitable for this. The emotion and rhythm of the story allowed the soundtrack to work for me, helping the children to truly engage with the story they were telling.

3. Clothing, hair, and makeup

This time our class talked about "Hunchbacked Crayfish" and "Sneezing Hat" respectively. They prepared crayfish and little mice respectively. Wearing these clothes can help the child better integrate into the role. The judges and teachers will also feel that the child has carefully prepared to tell the story and will not just wear a school uniform and go on stage.

4. Action design

For children, appropriately designing some actions when telling stories will be more lively and interesting, attract the audience, and is more in line with the image of children.

When designing actions, we can capture the words that express actions, expression changes, language description words, and numerals in the story. It is best to let the children participate in designing the actions together. Sometimes the children's body language The expression is more flexible and vivid than that of adults.

This time, our two classes participated in the school’s storytelling competition and won the first and second prizes respectively. They performed very well. If we hadn’t forgotten our lines because of nervousness, we might have won two first prizes. Woolen cloth.