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) Aesops 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
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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
(This
web page updated 1/21/05)