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Story titles are in quotation marks.
To retell any stories, get permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain.
In performance, always credit your sources.
• http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAK1.htm
Ideas for rhyming, sentence structure, tongue twisters.
• http://www.geminischool.org/sheppard/reading/dolch.html
• http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html
Dolch words lists and story.
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http://www.storyarts.org/index.html
Short stories to adapt from Heather Forest.
• http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/music/song
Music/Song.
• http://www.mca.k12.nf.ca/subpro3.htm
Poetic Devices.
• http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Folktales by themes to be adapted.
• http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
Aesop’s Fables.
• http://hca.gilead.org.il/xref.html#L
Hans Christian Andersen.
• http://www.larkinam.com/
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http://www.elderly.com/welcome.htm
Folkloric musical doodads
• 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.
• http://www.clickinks.com/Literature-Lesson-Plans.html
Literature lesson plans: Tall Tales, Myths & Legends, Folktales, African American Folktales, Native American Folktales, Fables and Nursery Rhymes.
• http://www.nald.ca/clr/aestrat/page40.htm
Folktales and Storytelling - Individual Evaluation - Storytelling.
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/
This is a great site by Scholastic featuring a "storytelling workshop" with Gerald Fierst.
• http://www.marnigillard.com/storytelling/why.shtml
• http://www.marnigillard.com/
Marni Gillard's Why Storytelling? A List for Parents, Teachers & Curricula-Makers.
• http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/
Aaron Shepard's Storytelling Page with Storytelling Tips and Stories to Tell.
• http://www.storyconnection.net
List of storytelling activities and in the Storyteller's Library, a list of books for storytelling in education.
• http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/
Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources for Storytellers. Tim offers many terrific resources.
• http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/talesofthebrothersgrimm/index.html
Brothers Grimm--Literature/Animals lesson plan (grades K-5)--DiscoverySchool.com.
• http://www.ualberta.ca/~lmireau/less.html
Lin's Home Page.
• http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/islandsofmystery/
Archeology and Storytelling--Literature/Geography/World History lesson plan (grades 6-8). DiscoverySchool.com.
• http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searchengine.cgi?SEARCH=Storytelling&WORD_POINTS=0,1,0,0
Activity Search Results.
• http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/native_story/index.html
Native American Storytelling.
• http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Story_Telling
Multicultural Storytelling - Multicultural Lesson Plans.
• http://www.pluggedin.org/tool_kit/curricula/groupportrait.html
Portrait Lesson Plans.
• http://www.tnpc.com/parentalk/preschoolers/presch8.html
ParenTalk Newsletter: Preschoolers: Storytelling: A Powerful Learning Tool in the Home.
• http://www.storyfete.org/story/lessonplan2.asp?subject=4
Storytell list member Angela Davis' site has a good selection of lesson plans as well.
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Advice, comments and references from Storytellers, Teachers and Librarians
1) Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories, Storytelling, and Activities for Peace, Justice and the Environment
2) Stories in the Classroom: Storytelling, Reading Aloud and Roleplaying with Children
3) Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, and Myths: Using Folk Literature in Your Classroom (Early Childhood Series)
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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.
7) 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.htmlTim J.
8) Andrew Wright's two books: Storytelling with Children (Resource Books for Teachers)
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