Telling Stories

Lately Caley has started telling stories. Nana Gerlach gave the girls some nursery tale puzzles like "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs." I got a book from the library telling those stories so Caley knows how they go, and now she acts them out with the puzzle pieces. Telling stories is a huge building block of literacy because through it the child demonstrates the understanding of a story, not just reading a string of letters but fully comprehending what those letters and words mean. Caley has also taken to "reading" to Amelia and, to my surprise, the stories are fairly coherent and close to the original story. Here she is reading "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Amelia while they play "night-night."