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The art of storytelling is probably is old as the use of language. Before the development of writing, stories were passed down by word of mouth, forming a tradition of oral literature. It takes imagination to tell stories and, of course, imagination to listen.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about storytelling.
People
To See Things To Do Teacher
Resources Bibliography
Places To GoThe following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about storytelling.
The Moonlit
Road
Tip toe down the Moonlit Road. It's a collection of scary stories from the American south told by professional storytellers.
Tip toe down the Moonlit Road. It's a collection of scary stories from the American south told by professional storytellers.
National
Storytelling Festival
Travel to the National Storytelling Festival and rub shoulders with the best.
Travel to the National Storytelling Festival and rub shoulders with the best.
Timpanogas Storytelling
Festival
Visit scenic Mt. Timpanogas and experience one of the best storytelling festivals in the U.S.
Visit scenic Mt. Timpanogas and experience one of the best storytelling festivals in the U.S.
People To SeeBarry
McWilliams
Listen to the stories of Barry McWilliam. Find out about his storytelling techniques. His Effective Storytelling: A Manual for Beginners is an excellent resource with many applications to classroom teaching.
Listen to the stories of Barry McWilliam. Find out about his storytelling techniques. His Effective Storytelling: A Manual for Beginners is an excellent resource with many applications to classroom teaching.
The Call of Story
Visit with 6 prominent storytellers: Carmen Deedy, Syd Lieberman, Dovie Thomason-Sickles, Donald Davis, Waddie Mitchell, and Rex Ellis and get ideas for honing your storytelling skills.
Visit with 6 prominent storytellers: Carmen Deedy, Syd Lieberman, Dovie Thomason-Sickles, Donald Davis, Waddie Mitchell, and Rex Ellis and get ideas for honing your storytelling skills.
Jay O'Callahan -
Where Imagination Meets the Spoken Word
Meet Jay O'Callahan, professional storyteller. Read his advice on creating stories.
Meet Jay O'Callahan, professional storyteller. Read his advice on creating stories.
Things To DoAaron
Shepard's Storytelling Page
Resources for storytelling (or story telling), including the acclaimed series Gifts of Story.
Resources for storytelling (or story telling), including the acclaimed series Gifts of Story.
Best
Practices: Instructional Strategies and Techniques: Storytelling
Get motivated to have students tell stories. This site has tips to get them started as well as storytelling rubrics.
Get motivated to have students tell stories. This site has tips to get them started as well as storytelling rubrics.
By
Word of Mouth: A Storytelling Guide for the Classroom
Make plans to incorporate storytelling into language arts activities. "Storytelling is one of the most basic ways of sharing knowledge, of making sense of experiences, and of seeing oneself in relation to others. In the classroom, storytelling is an important activity with strong links to literacy."
Make plans to incorporate storytelling into language arts activities. "Storytelling is one of the most basic ways of sharing knowledge, of making sense of experiences, and of seeing oneself in relation to others. In the classroom, storytelling is an important activity with strong links to literacy."
Reaching
Students Through Storytelling
This site has some great ideas to help get students started. "Storytelling in the classroom provides an open door for children of all ages to reveal gifts and talents, insights and creativity, critical thinking and development of skills that help us all understand others. Storytelling adds depth that traditional methods of learning do not always inspire."
This site has some great ideas to help get students started. "Storytelling in the classroom provides an open door for children of all ages to reveal gifts and talents, insights and creativity, critical thinking and development of skills that help us all understand others. Storytelling adds depth that traditional methods of learning do not always inspire."
StoryArts
Educational Web site, designed for teachers, librarians, and students,explores the use of storytelling in the classroom to enhance speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
Educational Web site, designed for teachers, librarians, and students,explores the use of storytelling in the classroom to enhance speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
StoryTeller.Net
Storytelling is truly an art. Read style tips from professional storytellers and hear RealAudio clips of their stories.
Storytelling is truly an art. Read style tips from professional storytellers and hear RealAudio clips of their stories.
Storytelling
Learn how having students tell stories ties into the oral language component of language arts core curriculum.
Learn how having students tell stories ties into the oral language component of language arts core curriculum.
Storytelling
Concept to Remember
Storytelling helps children learn to listen, enlarges the listener's vocabulary, extends a student's knowledge of the worlds of fact and fantasy, stimulates the listener's imagination, and creates an appetite for words.
Storytelling helps children learn to listen, enlarges the listener's vocabulary, extends a student's knowledge of the worlds of fact and fantasy, stimulates the listener's imagination, and creates an appetite for words.
Teacher Resources Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created
tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual
Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Bibliography- Barton, Bob and Booth, David. Stories in the Classroom. Pembroke Publishers.1990
- Barton, Bob. Tell Me Another: Storytelling and Reading Aloud at Home, at School and in the Community. Pembroke Publishers. 1986
- Cassady, Marsh. Storytelling Step By Step. San Jose, Calif.: Resource Publications, c1990.
- Cullum, Carolyn N. The Storytime Sourcebook: A Compendium of Ideas and Resources for Storytellers. New York: Neal-Schuman, c1990.
- Hamilton, Martha. Through the Grapevine: World Tales Kids CanR & Tell. Little Rock: August House Publishers, 2001.
- Lipkin, Lisa. Bringing the Story Home: the Complete Guide to Storytelling. New York: W.W. Norton, c2000.
- Pellowski, Anne. The World of Storytelling. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson, 1990.
- Pellowski, Anne. The Storytelling Handbook. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
- Shelley, Marshall. Telling Stories to Children. Batavia, Ill., USA : Lion Pub. Co., 1990.
- Simmons, Annette. Secrets of Influence from the Art of Storytelling. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, c2001.