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Finding the time to tell a bedtime story to a child has huge benefits – both for the child and the storyteller. It helps children relax, boosts their learning and improves bonding with parents...

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iane Ferlatte has participated in sto- take rytelling festivals on five continents the story REMEMBER THE BASICS OF STORYTELLING and her 2006 album of Brer Rabbit in an unex- Dstories earned a Grammy nomina- pected direction. tion for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Or just to make sure they’re paying f you’re making up a story, lennia and includes ‘The Tortoise and the She is, in short, a storyteller’s storyteller. Her attention. remember every story should Hare.’ Why? Because for kids, the protagonists advice? Use pitch, pacing and pausing to Sheir seconds Ferlatte’s advice. “When have a beginning, a middle and “aren’t really animals, they’re people”. They keep your child on the edge of their seat you’re making up a story, the voice is so I an end. Every story should have visualise the characters and identify with (or pillow). “Pauses are very important,” she important,” she said. “You can vary your a conflict and a resolution. Need help? them, and the nuanced morals — slow and said. “It lets that curiosity and suspense in.” rhythm, pitch, intonation, your pacing. You Consider the folk tale. steady wins the race, for example — are You can use strategic pauses to let your can speeditup! You can slow … On ‘Circle Round,’ the children’s things any kid can understand. child ponder what happens next, and then down … your … words. You can move your storytelling podcast from voice up! if someone is climbing Boston, host Rebecca Sheir a mountain, or move your voice down if they’re draws from folklore as climbing down,” she says. source material for enter- taining, audio-only stories for kids. “I’ve drawn from my admittedly limited ADD A SOUNDTRACK knowledge of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ (which was origi- his last tip is helpful for if and when nally passed down orally) and you’re telling stories beyond bedtime the ‘Bible’ (David and Goliath — on a long car ride, for example, or works pretty well). This saves T to liven up bath time. The idea is to you the mental effort of coming use props or live musical accompaniment, up with an original story every just as professionals do at festivals or on night,” she says. recordings. Several experts recommended “Your child is becoming your John stories from ‘Aesop’s Fables,’ which Williams,” Sheir said, referring to the iconic has been delighting children for mil- composer of movie themes. Find an actual in- strument or just two sticks “and as you tell the story, your child scores it. Or you can let USE YOUR WHOLE BODY your child take the lead — if they speed up, you speed up the action. If they slow down, ne advantage of telling, rather you slow down, too.” You can also employ than reading, a story is that you techniques like exquisite corpse, in which don’t have to look at and hold a everyone takes a turn Ophysical book, which frees your advancing the story. Or use face and hands to gesture and make eye Rory’s Story Cubes, in contact. It’s the difference between some which you roll dice to guy reading a joke book and Chris Rock or determine where a story Ali Wong doing stand-up. As Ferlatte puts it, goes next. “If books could give us sound and move- In a time when physi- ment and voices and facial expression, ENCOURAGE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION cal bookstores and that’d be wonderful. But they can’t.” libraries remain off-lim- Use your hands to show whether ne of the things with a story told is you can change it around,” its for many of us, story- something is huge or tiny, tap on nearby Isbell says. If your daughter wants the protagonist to be a telling is a way to intro- objects to imitate knocking on a door or mermaid instead of a snail, you can change that. A voy- duce new tales into our whoosh your hands when something Oage through the high seas can become a journey to Mars. daily life. It’s also a way happens quickly. This physicali- “You can change the sequence, you can change the characters, you can to bond with your child, to tap ty involves your children in the change the phrases. This nurtures that fluency of ideas that we want into her natural imag- ination while, story. As Isbell puts it, when we’re our children to develop.” perhaps, reawakening yours. telling a story to another person, As with singing a song, you can encourage call and response, or use “We’re dancing. rhymes to keep the child actively engaged. Ferlatte recommends We’re moving leaving out the end of a sentence and letting your child fill in the together.” blank. “When you’re telling stories, you want them to be involved in the telling,” Isbell advises. “We want them to be co-creators of the story,” she adds.

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HOW KXIP CAN HOW RR CAN QUALIFY FOR PLAYOFFS QUALIFY FOR PLAYOFFS Fresh from registering a -led RR still have a decent hat-trick of wins over outside chance to make it to the play- 1 table-toppers Delhi 1 offs this season. However, it will be the Capitals (DC), second- results of KKR, SRH, CSK and KXIP that placed RCB, and defending KEY will have an impact on RR’s fate this season. champions Rajasthan Royals are placed sixth in the points (MI), a reviving Kings XI HIGHLIGHTS table while Punjab are occupying the fifth spot Punjab can see themselves after playing the same number of games. n KXIP and RR fighting for the final playoff spot with a resurgent Rajasthan have eight points The Net Run Rate (NRR) can have a major Royals. Punjab have become the each from 10 games say if the points table continues to show tournament’s new dark horse 2 the two teams neck and neck. RR will play n Lately, both RR after defeating DC, MI, and RCB. ’s SRH on Thursday (October 22) and KXIP are seek- and Mumbai Indians on Sunday (October 25). The Rahul-led side will have ing revival before to continue playing every the league stage of Royals will then cross paths with KXIP in the bat- 2 game like a virtual elimina- the elite tourna- tle of equals on October 30. The meeting with tor in order to keep their 3 KKR on November 1 will be their final league fix- playoff hopes alive this season. ment comes to a ture for this season’s IPL. Royals will have to win Punjab will play Sunrisers conclusion on at least three out of their remaining four games to Hyderabad (SRH) on Saturday November 3 stay afloat in the playoff race this season. (24th October) and a crestfallen KKR on Monday (26 October). n Kolkata Knight While DC, RCB and MI look to have cemented Kings XI Punjab will then lock Riders (KKR) are 4 their spots in the top 4, it is KKR’s position horns with Rajasthan Royals on 30 placed fourth in the (No. 4) that KXIP, RR, SRH and even CSK October before playing the return points table after have eyes on. With the Knight Riders incur- leg with on ring a defeat on Wednesday, the teams in playing 10 matches November 1. the bottom half o f the points table have certainly been given a boost.

‘Wanted to deliver ‘magical Shami is the REAL MADRID STUNNED BY best yorker SHAKHTAR DONETSK IN CL OPENER performance’ for RCB’ bowler in the Shakhtar’s Tete, second right, celebrates after fter guiding Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) HIGHLIGHTS scoring his side’s opening goal to a win against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), competition pacer Mohammed Siraj said the franchise sup- n Liverpool beat Ajax A ports him a lot and he wanted to deliver a “mag- right now ical performance” for the team. During his first two overs, Amsterdam 1-0 away the pacer clinched three .The bowler gave away with a fortunate own just eight runs from his four overs in the match as RCB re- stricted KKR to just 84. goal in their opener. “Everyone in the RCB supports me a lot, even the fans. n Atalanta cruised to a So, I wanted to deliver a magical performance for the team and it was a magical performance,” Siraj said. Before the game, 4-0 victory over Siraj had an economy rate of 9.29 — the worst among 92 bowlers Midtjylland in another with at least 100 overs to their name. ANI

Photo: ANI opener. We just saw back to back Happy to see @mdsirajofficial n Manchester City centuries in an IPL for the do well ,did catch our eyes with defeated Porto 3-1. first time recently. Now, his pace, persistence and most n Inter Milan draws 2-2 back to back maiden overs importantly his attitude during Photo: ANI for the first time ever my last professional season for with Borussia from Mohd Siraj. Hyderabad in 2016. Moenchengladbach Harsha Bhogle S Badrinath

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