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When you're learning a story
to tell, it is best not to learn it word for word. Even experienced
tellers get nervous from time to time, and when you're nervous
those memoized words seem to vanish from your mind.
Many excellent techniques can help you
keep the events of a story clear and in order, so that you can
tell about the events freely, in your own words.
A story web is one way
to remember the main ideas in a story.
First: Write the main event or idea of the story in
the middle of your page and draw a cicle around it.
Second: Draw a line leading away from the circle in any
direction. At the end of this line, write a secondary event or
idea, something that is a result of the first one. Circle this
as well.
You can have as many secondary events
attached to the first one as you like, and some of those events
may have other thoughts connected to them.
When you're finished, you have a story web — a visual
aid to help you remember everything important in the story.
Below is a sample story web for the tale of Goldilocks
and the Three Bears. If you drew a web for this story it
might look different. There are many ways to create a web. The
important thing is whether it helps you remember the story.
Teachers: Story webs can also be used as a follow-up exercise
with students to help them analyze stories they've heard. The
story web technique addresses the Florida
Sunshine State Standard LA (Language Arts/Writing) 2.1.1
and 2.1.2.
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