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Big Idea
Stories help us to acquire language and understand the world around us.
Elaboration
Stories are narrative texts that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories can be simple or complex and may be derived from real or imagined experiences. They can be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. Examples are indigenous oral histories, personal stories, skits, series of pictures, songs, student-created stories.
exploring, for example, thoughts, feelings, knowledge, culture, and identity
keywords
Stories
understand the world