A contação de histórias na educação infantil

Abstract

The present paper intends to show the importance of storytelling in early childhood education as well as to show its contribution in teaching and learning processes. In addition, it aims to understand reading as a part of this strategy used in the classroom. Maintaining a routine with stories leads the student to have contact with books, changing his mind into fantasy, imagination, and creativity. Besides, there have been always people telling stories in the world, so now it will not be ignored by the teacher’s planning. For this reason, the parents creating the link between stories and their children since they are babies is relevant because one’s good habits come from the family. The moment of narrating a fairytale or a fable, no matter which it is, is very precious and stimulates the curiosity of the child. The playfulness needs to be part of every storytelling and its importance can be noticed in the teacher’s planning, especially in early childhood education, not underestimating the elementary education, but in this phase, the children are younger and full of fantasy, they believe in anything, they live in a magic world. However, storytelling must not be forgotten under any hypothesis because the student’s education also depends on this.