STORYTELLING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER "LISTENING TO STORIES" BY FANNY ABRAMOVICH

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the importance of storytelling in Early Childhood Education and Elementary School, based on the chapter "Listening to Stories" from the book *Children's Literature: Delights and Nonsense*, by Fanny Abramovich. The analysis seeks to understand how listening to stories contributes to the development of oral language, imagination, sensitivity, listening skills, and reading skills in children. In Early Childhood Education, this practice favors initial contact with the literary universe, enabling playful, affective, and expressive experiences. In Elementary School, it strengthens reading, textual interpretation, orality, vocabulary expansion, and written production. Thus, it is evident that storytelling should be understood as an intentional pedagogical practice, capable of contributing to the integral development of the child and to the construction of a more meaningful relationship with literature.