Introduction.- 1 The centrality of storytelling to human interaction.- Section 1 Storytelling in the family.- 2 The shape and functions of pretend play in interactions with a parent: First stories.- 3 The stories we tell: Stories within family settings.- 4 (TBC - Storytelling practices in parent child interaction).- 5 Recipiency around the Dinner Table: Aligning, Disaligning and Misaligning with a storytelling.- Part 2 Storytelling in school.- 6 Enduring storytelling dispositions in early childhood education.- 7 Short stories in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.- 8 The collaborative emergence of storytelling in an after-school foreign language primary classroom.- 9 Tellings in tests: Some constraints on storytelling sequences in L2 oral proficiency tests.- 10 "Did the teacher ..." The storytelling practices of two English Language Learners.- 11 Reconstructing refugee students' experience of classroom practices from their tellings.- Part 3 Storytelling in Higher Education.- 12 Teacher storytelling in an English as a Second Language 'meaning -and-fluency' class.- 13 "I remember when I was in Valencia" Student-teacher story-telling and co-construction of identities.- 14 Giving advice through hypothetical storytelling: A Conversation Analytic study of supervisory interaction between doctoral students and supervisors.- Conclusion.- 15 Considerations for parenting and educating.