{"id":48552,"date":"2021-07-08T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T07:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/let-your-stories-come-alive-20210707-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:51:12","slug":"let-your-stories-come-alive-20210707-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/let-your-stories-come-alive-20210707-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Let your stories come alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTHERE is never a point in the day where learners hang more on to every word of mine than when it is time to read a story out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_8dac86d9\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11341\/88a2d3db091c409aa9d396713608512f.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11341\/0a9a85c484f94996b290093fd925fa5a.jpg\" title=\"Seen here is Willow Muller from Despatch Preparatory School learning how to read aloud to her classmates. 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