Storyteller, Storyteacher

Storyteller, Storyteacher
Author: Marni Gillard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Marni Gillard has told stories to preschoolers, middle schoolers, and college students, and elicited their tales in return. She's heard triumph and trauma tales from prison inmates, senior citizens, and both preservice and veteran teachers. She's witnessed repeatedly that we teach ourselves how to live by telling our stories. In this book she shares the lessons she's learned about child-centered teaching and telling. Storyteller, Storyteacher includes: The important difference between reading aloud and storytelling. How children can learn from the natural storytellers in their lives. How to retrieve early memories. How to choose the "right" story to tell. Strategies and reasons for the use of visualization. A perspective on performance anxiety and reluctant tellers. How less-competent readers and writers find a safe and success-strewn path to literacy through oracy. How oral stories help build community from the first day of school. His book speaks to the soul of the experienced but often weary teacher and shines a light of encouragement on the path before the beginning teacher. It honors the important work of parenting and of listening to children in and out of school. It invites us all to look to our stories for lessons about educating our children and ourselves.

The Storyteller's Guide

The Storyteller's Guide
Author: William Mooney
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874834826

Guide to becoming a better storyteller, with advice from more than fifty of America's best-known storytellers, who answer questions about such issues as creating original stories, controlling stage fright, marketing and setting fees, and using storytelling in the library and classroom.

The Story Performance Handbook

The Story Performance Handbook
Author: R. Craig Roney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135656835

"Explicit, thorough advice avoids confusion as to how to select, prepare, and deliver stories and poetry via reading aloud, mediated storytelling, and storytelling." "The sequential chapter organization, progressing from easiest to most difficult, and Developmental and Culminating Activities at the end of each skill chapter, enable this text to be used either independently or in conjunction with courses or workshops in story performance." "Unique among story performance texts, instruction is based not only on the author's own extensive experience but also on empirical research related to teaching adults to tell stories."

Storytelling

Storytelling
Author: Josepha Sherman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317459385

Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.

The Art of Storytelling

The Art of Storytelling
Author: Amy E. Spaulding
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0810877775

Designed for anyone who wants to develop the skill of telling stories, this volume provides advice on choosing, learning, and presenting stories, as well as discussions on the importance of storytelling through human history and its continued significance today.

An Introduction to Storytelling

An Introduction to Storytelling
Author: Christine Willison
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0750988584

Where do stories come from, and how do we come to know them? Daughters listen with wonder to their grandmothers' tales. Journalists have their trusted sources. Writers of storybooks draw unconsciously from the works of their predecessors. It is as if every story has within it an infallible truth, contained in the echo of its original telling. The storyteller recounts the tale. The listener hears, learns and remembers. In due course they will retell the same tale, adding in something of their own. And so listeners in time turn into storytellers. This inspiring book brings together the stories from across the world of listeners who themselves became storytellers. They reveal who influenced them the most, what drew them further in, what they learnt, and what they now wish to share with new generations. Tips, tools and tales: read this book, and take your turn.

Storytelling Professionally

Storytelling Professionally
Author: Harlynne Geisler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1997-02-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313078548

Whether you want to become a full time storyteller, expand your storytelling repertoire, or simply hire a storyteller, this guide is for you. Everything you want to know about the profession of storytelling can be found in the book. It will help you sell yourself as a freelance storyteller to schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and other events and organizations. It covers the importance of learning from others; how to organize your time, office, and research; and how to use brochures, business cards, press releases, flyers, mailings, showcases, performer lists, and giveaways to get bookings. She also offers advice on dealing with the competition; preparing yourself for your audience, bookers, and performance area; and problem prevention and solution. Prejudice, censorship, and other issues related to storytelling are highlighted in the final chapter, and an appendix contains How to Host a Freelance Storyteller at Your School or Library. Teachers, librarians, clowns, actors, puppeteers, homemakers, and anyone else interested in storytelling professionally will want this book.

Story Works

Story Works
Author: David Booth
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2000
Genre: English language
ISBN: 1551381257

"This comprehensive resource deals with all aspects of story, including what kinds of stories to choose, how to present them, ways to integrate stories in the classroom, evaluation and more" Cf. Our choice, 2001.

A Letter from Your Teacher

A Letter from Your Teacher
Author: Shannon Olsen
Publisher: Life Between Summers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781735414140

From the author and illustrator of Our Class is a Family, this touching picture book expresses a teacher's sentiments and well wishes on the last day of school. Serving as a follow up to the letter in A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School, it's a read aloud for teachers to bid a special farewell to their students at the end of the school year. Through a letter written from the teacher's point of view, the class is invited to reflect back on memories made, connections formed, and challenges met. The letter expresses how proud their teacher is of them, and how much they will be missed. Students will also leave on that last day knowing that their teacher is cheering them on for all of the exciting things to come in the future. There is a blank space on the last page for teachers to sign their own name, so that students know that the letter in the book is coming straight from them. With its sincere message and inclusive illustrations, A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School is a valuable addition to any elementary school teacher's classroom library.

In the Presence of Each Other

In the Presence of Each Other
Author: Johanna C. Kuyvenhoven
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442693223

There can be little doubt that pedagogical practices have increasingly become focused on reading and writing in childhood education. In the Presence of Each Other is a brilliant ethnography that examines the educational benefits of the use of oral storytelling in the classroom and the ways in which non-print literacy enhances children's overall language and communication capacities. Presenting a strong argument based on compelling evidence for the incorporation of oral practices in the classroom, Johanna Kuyvenhoven follows a group of children in grades four and five as they forge an inclusive learning environment that respects linguistic, social, and ethnic diversity by sharing stories out loud. She traces the positive effects that oral storytelling has on children's vocabularies, writing skills, as well as for problem-solving abilities and empathetic responses that are essential to learning across the disciplines. In the Presence of Each Other is a ground-breaking work not only for educators but also for anyone interested in the practice of storytelling.