This graduate thesis deals with the topic of Storytelling and dramatic play in the lower grades of primary school. The thesis is divided into three parts: storytelling, dramatic play and research. The first part of the thesis focuses on storytelling and includes key terms such as: storytelling, story and the narrator. The second part of the thesis refers to dramatic play and includes key terms such as: dramatic play, dramatic education and improvisation. The theoretical part which discusses storytelling includes the following chapters: Story, Theoretical definition of a story, Stories in a child's life, About storytelling and retelling, The importance of storytelling and Narrator's competences. The theoretical part that discusses dramatic play includes the chapters Dramatic education, Dramatic expression, Dramatic creativity, Dramatic culture, Dramatic play, Rules of dramatic play and the role of the drama teacher, Teacher’s competences and Improvisation. The thesis also explains and compares the terms that are used in the Curriculum for primary school and the Curriculum from the first to the fourth grade, but exclusively with an emphasis on concepts such as storytelling and dramatic play from the school subject Croatian language. The thesis explains the connection between storytelling and improvisation and their similarities and differences are defined. The third part of the thesis describes and presents the research. The aim of the research was to examine whether primary school teachers have encountered the concepts and the values of storytelling and dramatic play and whether they are using them in their work. The key problem the research addresses is finding and discovering the reasons why they are not used in the teaching and whether the problem is in the process of the teacher's education or lack of time. The obtained results show that teachers are familiar with the concepts and that they recognize their values, but due to structural reasons that include the teaching process and the program, they are not able to adequately use storytelling and dramatic play as tools for developing creativity and speaking skills in children.