Helping Children Explore Their Imagination Through Storytelling

Every child has a story to tell.

Sometimes that story comes from a favorite picture book. Sometimes it comes from a pretend-play adventure involving dinosaurs, superheroes, animals, or imaginary friends.

Storytelling gives children a chance to explore their ideas, communicate their thoughts, and make sense of the world around them.

At Little Scholars Learning Centers, we're excited to share another way families can explore storytelling together.

Why Storytelling Is Valuable for Young Children

Storytelling can support many areas of children's early development.

As children listen to and participate in stories, they have opportunities to:

• Learn and use new vocabulary

• Practice listening and communication

• Explore emotions

• Develop imagination

• Make predictions

• Express their own ideas

• Create stories of their own

Parents can make these experiences even more engaging by asking open-ended questions.

Try:

💭 “What do you think happens next?”

❤️ “How do you think the character feels?”

🌟 “What would you do?”

📖 “What would you change about the story?”

🎨 “Can you draw your favorite part?”

These simple questions can turn storytime into a conversation between parent and child.

Introducing Taletic™

As part of our partnership, Little Scholars Learning Centers is pleased to introduce families at both our Oakland and North locations to Taletic™.

Taletic is a children's storytelling platform where children can watch and read personalized stories designed around them.

The platform offers a calm and engaging storytelling experience and is thoughtfully designed to be inclusive of neurodivergent children.

For families interested in exploring a different kind of digital storytelling experience, Taletic can be an opportunity to sit down together and discover a story.

Try It Together

If you choose to explore Taletic, consider making it a shared activity.

Sit with your child and talk about what you're seeing. Ask questions and encourage your child to share their ideas.

Afterward, extend the story into an offline activity.

For example, your child could:

🎨 Draw a picture of a character🧸 Recreate the story with toys🎭 Act out a favorite scene🏗️ Build something from the story with blocks✏️ Invent a new ending📚 Tell the story back to you in their own words

This helps turn storytelling into an opportunity for creativity, conversation, and connection.

A Special Gift for Little Scholars Families 🎁

Families at our two Little Scholars locations have their own promotional codes.

Oakland Location

Get 10 FREE Taletic credits with promo code:

LSOK101

North Location

Get 10 FREE Taletic credits with promo code:

LSNO100

Enter the appropriate code in Taletic to receive 10 credits.

Both promotional offers are valid through September 30, 2026. One promotional code redemption per account. Terms may apply.

Families can scan the QR code on the promotional graphic for their location to download the Taletic app.

Making Digital Storytelling More Interactive

Every family has its own approach to technology. One helpful way to approach digital experiences is to think about whether children are simply consuming content or whether they're being encouraged to participate, communicate, imagine, and create.

Personalized storytelling can be one way to make digital time more interactive, particularly when parents participate alongside their children.

And when the story ends, the learning and imagination don't have to stop.

A story can inspire an art project, a building activity, pretend play, or a conversation about emotions and experiences.

Every Child Is a Storyteller

At Little Scholars Learning Centers, we encourage children to be curious, creative, and confident learners.

Sometimes learning begins with a question.

Sometimes it begins with play.

And sometimes, it begins with a story.

We're happy to share Taletic with our Oakland and North families as another resource for exploring the joy of storytelling together.