{"id":6430,"date":"2020-11-24T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedsoftellers.eu\/?post_type=resources&p=6430"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:53:00","slug":"story-mapping","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/seedsoftellers.eu\/en\/resources\/story-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How can teachers and pupil\u2019s use their visual memory
to memorize a story,
internalize it and put their own words to tell it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AN ELEPHANT\u2019S MEMORY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storytelling is not learning by heart! It is quite different from memorizing a previously written text down to the last word\u2026 it is not theatre. Thus, oral transmission in ancient times allowed speakers to add parts and remove others.

With learning by heart, the slightest omission, even of a sentence leads to a black hole. When you tell a story, you have more flexibility for improvisation, adaptation to the audience, to the context\u2026<\/p>

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In olden times, some illiterate storytellers were able to tell tales for a whole night or even several nights, or to memorize more than 500,000 verses from an epic. Yet these stories were passed on orally. An effort of memorization that hardly seems believable today! How did their prodigious memory<\/strong> work? Above all, they used their auditory memory, with reference points based on rhythm, repetition and melody\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the storytellers also had storytelling patterns <\/strong>in mind, structures that were often the same and which served as points of reference. Some storytellers said that they followed the character “looking over his shoulder” to better “see” the story unfold<\/strong>, among different “places of memory” located on a map on which they moved throughout their narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udcac This mapped vision, which is not linear, is useful for linking different ideas together and creating thought. This map is like a maze that we draw mentally, and which we have a global vision of, allowing us to test different paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, a story map helps tellers \u201dsee\u201d their stories as a series of pictures. It is a representation of the \u201dskeleton” or the \u201dbones\u201d of the story, key moments without which the story would lose its meaning. As tellers or children tell the story, they add \u201dflesh\u201d by telling it in their own words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The act of creating a map reinforces:<\/p>\n