ABSTRACT
In this chapter, student and teachers reflect upon the similarities they found between reading a story to a class and planning a lesson, their voices are captured throughout. The chapter, effective use of stimuli, plot and resolution within lesson planning are explored as potential scaffolds for thinking about lessons and to ultimately help us to craft engaging, coherent and memorable learning experiences for the children. The adaptability of the teacher in managing the learning as the series of lessons continues is like the storyteller adding and subtracting different challenges to their quest narrative in light of how their audience is reacting. And so it progresses the lesson synonymous with the storytelling. Creating engaging lesson narratives, effective use of voice, provision for individual characters, well-used pauses, questioning and interactivity are all important in the lesson as narrative but teacher reflection and flexibility are also essential.
