R-SUCCESS Blog
Blog posts written by our team - all about R-SUCCESS and oral storytelling!

How to Have a Successful Post-Telling Discussion
Storytelling is a powerful tool that early childhood educators can use to connect stories to children’s lived reality and spark...
The Importance of Oral Language for Children's Learning
Oral storytelling provides young learners with a foundation for two sets of critical emergent reading skills: constrained (i.e., print...

Teacher Expressiveness During Storytelling
Storytelling is a quintessential part of early childhood education that not only teaches children vital skills but also expands their...

Creativity and Socioemotional Development Benefits of Oral Storytelling
Oral storytelling is a way to share stories with students without the use of a printed text. Instead, oral storytelling relies on verbal...

Adapting Oral Stories from Books
Teachers can promote children’s language and literacy development through a variety of methods, including story reading and oral...

R-SUCCESS Sample Stories Guide
In addition to our free R-SUCCESS training webinars, you can find a collection of sample stories, along with accompanying resources in...

Post-Telling Strategies to Improve Narrative Comprehension
Post-telling activities following oral storytelling can help improve children’s narrative comprehension and analytical skills by...

Using Props While Sharing Oral Stories
Creativity is critical for young children’s learning and development (Leggett, 2017). When sharing oral stories, teachers can support...

Supporting Parent Engagement through R-SUCCESS Oral Storytelling
Sharing oral stories in the classroom helps teachers to bridge home-school practices by incorporating a common practice in Latine/x and...

The Importance of Oral Storytelling
Oral storytelling is a practice that is found across cultures and has existed for an exceptionally long time (National Geographic, 2020)....

Returning to Using R-SUCCESS in Your Classroom
We hope that R-SUCCESS can continue to help support you and the children in your classroom.













