This thesis is about children´s storytelling abilities at a preschool age and it stresses the importance of encouraging storytelling abilities in the child´s development. Various meanings and explanations of the term storytelling, that is narration, are given in the first part of the thesis as well as the explanation of forms that are used. Furthermore, different influences on the development of the child´s storytelling abilities and their dependence and role as a participant in the child´s development are explained. Activities which may encourage the ability of storytelling among children are also stated. The second part od the thesis consist of research results which were obtained by carrying out a survey among preschool teachers. The objective of the research was to determine the awareness of preschool teachers regarding the importance of encouraging children´s storytelling abilities and check the frequency of activities which are used for this purpose. The survey was carried out in July 2018. 290 preschool teachers took part in it. The result confirmed the high level of accordance with statements which measure the recognition of the importance of developing children´s storytelling abilities at a preschool age. The awareness of preschool teachers regarding this matter was confirmed, as well. In addition, the results show that preschool teachers use activities for encouraging storytelling abilities among preschool children on an average several times a week.