STORYTELLING WEBSITES AND BOOKS FOR TEACHERS
STORYTELLING IN CLASSROOMS
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1) Ideas for rhyming, sentence structure, tongue twisters
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAK1.htm

2) Dolch words lists and story
http://www.geminischool.org/sheppard/reading/dolch.html
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html

3) Short stories to adapt
http://www.pitara.com/
http://www.storyarts.org/index.html

4) Brer Rabbit Tales
http://www.disfolks.com/ArchiveTale5.htm

5) Music/Song
http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/music/song
http://www.concentric.net/~Gamba/

6) Poetic Devices
http://www.mca.k12.nf.ca/subpro3.htm

7) Folktales by themes to be adapted
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

8) Andrew Lang Index
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~emily/Docs/lang.html

9) Aesop’s Fables
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

10) Hans Christian Andersen
http://hca.gilead.org.il/xref.html#L

11) Folkloric musical doodads
http://www.larkinam.com/
http://www.elderly.com/welcome.htm

12) State Standards Across the Nation
http://www.statestandards.com/

13) Florida Sunshine State Standards
http://www.firn.edu/doe/curric/prek12/frame2.htm
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/k12db/
This link gives specifics and can be copied and pasted. Examples below:

Sunshine State Standard Code: LA.E.1.1.1
Strand: Literature
Standard: The student understands the common features of a variety of literary forms.
Benchmark: The student knows the basic characteristics of fables, stories, and legends.

Sunshine State Standard Code: MU.D.1.1.2
Strand: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis
Standard: The student listens to, analyzes, and describes music.
Benchmark: The student identifies, upon hearing, familiar instruments and voice types (e.g.
trumpet, piano, triangle, tambourine, child or adult).

14) http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/currents/v3n1/Mello.html

15) http://www.childcarelounge.com
This site is designed for those who care for and about children. Daycare directors and administrators,
preschool teachers, child care givers, education coordinators, advocates, and students will find valuable
information and resources.

16) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/literacy.htm

17) http://www.vifamily.ca/tm/281/9.htm

18) http://library.tamu.edu/hss/storytelling/

19) http://www.nald.ca/clr/aestrat/page40.htm

20) http://www.californiareads.org/story.htm

21) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/drama.htm

22) http://www.akrac.k12.ak.us/AKRAC/Programs/readingres.html

23) Stories in the Classroom: Storytelling, Reading Aloud and Roleplaying with Children by Bob
Barton and David Booth. Heineman, 1990
ISBN 0-435-08527-1

24) Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends & Myths - Using folk literature in your classroom by Bette Bosma -
Teachers College Press, 1987
ISBN 0-8077-2827-6

25) Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope - Stories of Peace, Justice & the Environment, edited by Ed
Brody, et al - New Society Publishers, 1992
ISBN0-86571-229-8

26) The position statement from the NTCE Teaching Storytelling:
http://www.ncte.org/positions/teaching_storytelling.shtml

27) This article is a welcome addition to our ongoing bibliography of articles about using storytelling
in the classroom. It is not the scientific test that we covet, just an unsolicited testimonial from a
different perspective, a foreign language (English!) teacher in Plzen, Czech Republic.
http://ettc.uwb.edu.pl/strony/ptt/dec95/41horak.html

28) Those who use stories in school with teenagers might like to take a look at this article:
"Discussing Mr Fox"
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jul02/sart6.htm

29) Richard Martin. Visit the Tales and Music web site at
http://www.talesandmusic.de

30) Andrew Wright's two books: Storytelling with Children and Creating Stories with Children.
Both OOP and available via Amazon.co.uk (possibly .com too).

31) Heather Forest's website full of storytelling in education information and resources
http://www.storyarts.org

32) An awesome site on storytelling and education
http://www.turnerlearning.com/turnersouth/storytelling/index.html

33) This is a great site by Scholastic featuring a "storytelling workshop" with Gerald Fierst
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/

34) Angela Davis' site on using storytelling in education in Louisiana
http://www.storyfete.org/story/home.asp

35) Marni Gillard's Why Storytelling? A List for Parents, Teachers & Curricula-Makers
http://www.storypower.com/gillard/schools/why.html
http://www.marnigillard.com/storytelling/why.shtml
http://www.marnigillard.com/

36) Storytelling: The Heart and Soul of Education by Stan Koki (a pdf file) great article!
http://www.prel.org/products/Products/Storytelling.pdf

37) Aaron Shepard's Storytelling Page with Storytelling Tips and Stories to Tell
http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/

38) List of storytelling activities and in the Storyteller's Library, a list of books for
storytelling in education
http://www.storyconnection.net

39) Here is a good one. Teaching with Folklore Index
http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/folklore/

40) Dianne de Las Casas' website The Story Connection.
http://www.storyconnection.net/

41) Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers. Tim offers many terrific resources.
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/

42) Brothers Grimm--Literature/Animals lesson plan (grades K-5)--DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/talesofthebrothersgrimm/index.html

43) The Role of Storytelling in Early Literacy Development - by Louise Phillips
http://www.AustralianStorytelling.org.au

44) Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/drama.htm#A

45) Handbook for Storytellershttp://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/storyhandbook.htm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/storyhandbook.htm

46) Lin's Home Page
http://www.ualberta.ca/~lmireau/less.html

47) NCTE Teaching Ideas: Teaching Storytellin
http://www.ncte.org/teach/Storytelling7773.html
http://www.ncte.org/positions/story.html

48) Archeology and Storytelling--Literature/Geography/World History lesson plan (grades 6-8)
DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/islandsofmystery/

49) Traditional Literature. Lesson Plans
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/tradless.htm

50) ProTeacher! Storytelling lesson plans for elementary school teachers
http://www.proteacher.com/070163.shtml

51) What is it Like to Live in a Village in Kenya
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/academy/afkenya.htm#activity6

52) Apple Learning Interchange
http://ali.apple.com/action.lasso?database=UOPs&-layout=Detailed&-response=%2fali%2fUops_Display.html&-recID=110&-search

53) Activity Search Results
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searchengine.cgi?SEARCH=Storytelling&WORD_POINTS=0,1,0,0

54) Native American Storytelling
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/native_story/index.html

55) Multicultural Storytelling - Multicultural Lesson Plans
http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/passport/lessonplan/lessons/multicultstory.html
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Story_Telling

56) Portrait Lesson Plans
http://www.pluggedin.org/tool_kit/curricula/groupportrait.html

57) ParenTalk Newsletter: Preschoolers: Storytelling: A Powerful Learning Tool in the Home
http://www.tnpc.com/parentalk/preschoolers/presch8.html

58) Storytell list member Angela Davis' site has a good selection of lesson plans as well.
http://www.storyfete.org/story/lessonplan2.asp?subject=4

59) I am working on a 3-times per school year thematic "newsletter" for middle grades Social
Studies teachers called "Crossroads of Culture" which will have a Web site with additional
content and activities. The theme for the first issue is "Haunting Legends and Cucuis." (Cucuis
are Mexican/Hispanic monsters and creatures such as lechusas, chupacabras, La Llorona, etc.) It
includes a lesson plan for an activity that involves searching out your own community's "haunting
legends," a dog ghost story collected in a rural black community by Texas black folklorist J. Mason
Brewer--rendered into standard English with permission from the publisher (I'm so proud of getting
that!), and a brief discussion activity on Ghost Towns, as well as our museum's fall schedule and a
not-too-obnoxious promotion for our ghost story cassette. On the Web site are adobe acrobat files for
the newsletter itself, a "ghost writer's glossary," TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills)
applications for each grade level 4-8, photographs from an upcoming Exhibit "Los Cucuis: Hispanic
Folklore of South Texas, a student interview form that goes with the Haunting Legends lesson plan,
a Haunting Legends rubric, an annotated bibliography of south Texas Ghost story resources, 20
episodes of our 90 second radio program telling ghost stories from south Texas (audio and printable)
links to ourstorytelling Web pages and our "Spirits of the Alamo" pages, and links to other related
sites. It will be mounted in September, and I will certainly be announcing it on STORYTELL.

60) There are two sections on our site teachers have found interesting and/or useful.
a) One is the section "Folktales 4-U," tale texts with coaching suggestions, drawn from my years of
teaching kids storytelling technique. It's a mixed bag-- goofy kidlore, classic marchen, nursery tales--
but there's some helpful stuff there.
http://folktale.net/stories.html

b) The Gingerbread Man is the most visited of these, I think Elderbarry linked it. I got a nice letter
from a woman who had never told stories who was going in to tell to a class of developmentally
disabled high school kids, and had a very good experience with this.
http://folktale.net/GBman.html

c) Another is an article I wrote years ago about using storytelling while teaching reading to a group
of unusually difficult adolescents. It was first published in Learning Magazine, and has since been
reprinted widely, including in the "Best of Storytelling Magazine."
http://folktale.net/lrningmg.html




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