To demonstrate “Good Storytelling Skills” I told the S2s one of my favourite stories, “The Tales of the Sage Duban” from the famous 1001 Nights (aka The Arabian Nights)

One of the most important things when creating a story – and for us storytellers, telling a story, is Pacing. I asked the pupils to come up with 5 bulletpoints for the story.
1 – the start
2 – midpoint between start and middle
3 – the middle
4 – midpoint between middle and end
5 – the end

Duban is quite a tricky story to do this with as the tale could end after 3 bulletpoints… but most groups summarised it well. Here’s one –

1) Duban came back from travelling
2) He found out that the king was ill
3) He healed the King
4) Duban was executed because Jafar lied
5) Jafar died trying to make a genie