Sit or stand in front of your audience and simply tell your story. This method is the classic form of storytelling. You can hold the text or memorize it. This form shouldn't be confused with a monologue, which typically is spoken from one character to another in the course of a dramatic structure. A monologue also exists because one character is trying to gain something by speaking. By taking the first person or third person point of view, you're simply telling the audience a story.
Work with a partner to tell a story together. This method does not mean speaking at the same time, though you could in certain sections. One person could play the characters in the story and the other person could narrate the rest of the text. One person could create background noise while the other person is telling the story. Work with a partner to create the characters and world of the story.
Use puppets to illustrate the story while you tell it. Traditionally, you will set up a board or a stage for the puppets, and tell the story from behind these structures. Tell the story while acting it out with puppets. You also can use flashlights and shadow puppets to tell the story. Find a clean white wall and focus the lights on it. Dim the lights, and use sock puppets or cut-out figures for the characters. Place them on Popsicle sticks. This form works great for children's story time.
Tell the story through silent movement, or mime. Mime is the ancient art of acting out a story through the use of movements with no sound. You may have someone telling the story while you act it out or tell the entire story through movement. In mime, your movements must be precise so the audience knows exactly what you're doing. Study the works of Marcel Marceau and Charlie Chaplin.
Gather a group to share the text of the story. Give a piece of the text to each person. Rehearse the story together to avoid pauses between sentences. Stage the story by having everyone in a line or a circle. Each person can step forward each time they have to speak. This form creates an exciting energy, because the group works together to tell the story. Group storytelling works well when telling tales native to the group's homeland.