1- Roots:
Through stories we have our students keep their family identity and appreciate it for a quite long time and maybe forever. Stories help us do that through the narratives that lie within which connect the students with their family members at different stages of their lives.
2- Grit:
Stories that talk about challenges that are often faced by families in real life, help students decrease the effect of stress and develop resilience. Such stories will help students believe that they can overcome such situations just like the characters in the stories did.3- A glimpse of the soul:
Tell students stories that carry down deep our inner thoughts, what we care about... Such stories will give our students a chance to really hear us and understand our behaviors and actions in certain situation inside and outside the classroom.
4- Practice developing a gift_ the art of listening:
Here we're talking about the ability to listen to understand instead of listening to respond. After sharing our stories, we should seek to have our students talk about it, share their ideas; maybe assign a specific day were they get to dress like their favorite character, act like them and talk out loud in front of their classmates what they like about the story and the character they are presenting and maybe how they can help their character be a better person or say how he/ she should've acted in a certain situation..
5- The ability to command attention:
In the stories we present to our students, we should always search deep in the details of each chapter or episode for signs and things that would grab our students attention and interests.
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