Attitude of School Children to Storytelling and Reading of Textbooks in Selected Private Schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State

This study focuses on attitude of school children to storytelling and reading of textbooks in the school setting, with the objective of examining the attitude of school children to storytelling and reading of textbooks in selected private Primary and Junior Secondary schools in Ibadan North local Government, Ibadan, Oyo State. Survey method was adopted for this study and simple random sampling method was used to select sample size of 300 private primary and Secondary School students and data was collected through a questionnaire. The findings suggested that storytelling exercise catches the attention of school children and they are happy when listening to stories and most of them always look forward to storytelling time each week. Also, students love reading textbooks. Students also understand better the topic taught when they read textbooks. On basis of the findings, it was recommended that teachers should develop the attitude of storytelling as this will help to develop the attitude of the pupils towards teaching and learning. Necessary textbooks that will develop reading habit of children should be provided by the school management and school children should be given access to the books through the school library.