Storytime is potentially one of the most enriching experiences in every young child's life - educationally invaluable, socially enhancing and a great deal of fun. Modern educational theory recognises its value. Children who are fed a diet rich in stories develop better than children who don't. It's as simple as that.
Stories enable children to develop structures in their minds for understanding experience. Stories provide children with language in forms that give shape and meaning to words. The children may be unable to reproduce the language - not yet anyway - but they will recognise, appreciate and gradually learn it.
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