The Magic of Stories: When Interactive Tales Open the Doors to English
All it takes is an open book, a knowing glance, a change of voice… and the children are already somewhere else. In a mysterious forest, on a pirate ship, inside the house of a funny monster. Storytelling, when it is alive and interactive, captures children’s attention like nothing else, and becomes a wonderful tool for learning English.
With my stories, children don’t just listen. They take part. They guess what comes next, repeat phrases, act out emotions, make the puppets speak, shout “oh no!” or “run away!” all together. Vocabulary turns into action, rhythm creates the urge to speak, and words stick because they are lived.
The picture books I choose are full of images, sounds, and humor. They help build routines, play with repetition, link a word to an image, a gesture, an emotion. Each story becomes an adventure to share, a collective experience that strengthens both social bonds and natural language acquisition.
Telling stories in English is much more than reading a book: it is opening a world where imagination guides learning, and where every child becomes the actor of their own linguistic discovery.
