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How can storytelling be used in education?         “If we reconceive teaching as storytelling, we might begin to devise planning techniques that offer alternatives to the technological models currently available. So instead of thinking of a lesson or unit as embodying a set of objectives to be attained, we might enable teachers to think of it as a good story to be told.” (Egan, 1990, pp.25-26)   Storytelling is seen as the oldest form of education ;  stories are at the core of many interactions. The most important thing that children learn from texts is the variety of different discourses, the writer expresses feelings through narrative patterns. Storytelling allows children to make the mundane and unexplained possible. Teaching through storytelling can create interest and excitement, which encourages confidence to speak out. Speaking and reading fluency becomes apparent when children tell stories to an audience, it also encourages lan...