Estudos Pedagógicos

Abstract

We live in a period in which the media and technologies are increasingly accessible to children; information arrives through the media, expanding horizons and knowledge. Books are being left out, stories are being forgotten, which makes it a challenge for the educator to make school children take pleasure in reading Storytelling in schools was a way of distracting children and today it comes resurrecting the figure of the storyteller. According to several scholars, storytelling is a valuable aid to the pedagogical practice of teachers in Early Childhood Education and in the early years of Elementary Education, instigates imagination, creativity, orality, encourages a taste for reading and contributes to the formation of child's personality involving the social and the affective.