Peer-reviewed article
The Benefits and Purpose of Storytelling for Early Childhood Education
Dessy Farantika, Arif Muzayin Shofwan, Devia Purwaningrum ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This literature review examines storytelling as a teaching activity in early childhood education. The study identifies storytelling as a method to convey moral lessons and instil character values in young children. The research documents several developmental benefits including improved concentration, memory, language skills, reading interest, and critical thinking. The study concludes that storytelling supports cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development while strengthening teacher-student relationships.
Key points
- Storytelling is used to instil positive values and extract lessons from both positive and negative story elements
- The purpose is to develop good behaviour and balance cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development in children
- Benefits include training concentration, sharpening memory, developing language skills, and fostering reading interest
- Storytelling improves critical thinking skills in early childhood students
- The activity strengthens emotional relationships between teachers and students
Limitations
This is a literature review without empirical data collection, so it cannot demonstrate causal effects or measure the actual outcomes of storytelling in classroom settings. The document does not provide evidence of which specific storytelling methods are most effective or for which age groups within early childhood.
Abstract
Storytelling activities are usually carried out by a teacher to early childhood students. There are many benefits of storytelling activities for early childhood students. Therefore, storytelling activities must continue to be developed in early childhood education. This descriptive qualitative research with literature study will discuss the various benefits and objectives of storytelling for early childhood. The data analysis technique uses content analysis by sorting out data according to the objectives and benefits of the research. This study found the following points. First, storytelling is an activity to tell fictitious stories that don't really happen to instill the best values from the story and take lessons from the worst values from the story. Second, the purpose of storytelling for early childhood is to form good behavior and instill character values in children so that they have balance and cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development. Third, the benefits of storytelling for early childhood include: training concentration, sharpening memory sharpness, developing language skills, fostering interest in reading, improving critical thinking skills, and bringing closer emotional relationships between teachers and students.