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The unique Story Tent style combines physicalisation, puppets, masks, costumes, artifacts, rhymes and songs with traditional and literary texts -
encouraging students to enjoy and participate fully in the retelling of traditional and classic tales to develop English language skills

The story Tent project came out of Alastair Daniel’s use of storytelling as a teaching strategy with children with profound emotional and behavioural difficulties. He found that storytelling (as contrasted with story-reading) provided a unique method of drawing children, who often had difficulties the imaginative play, into new worlds.


Rather than an audience, students during a Story Tent telling become participants shaping the story which is never the same twice. With language, imagery and physical interpretation adapted to the age and developmental level of the participants, each storytelling event is unique.