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Storytelling
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.
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
The 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.
Timpanogas Storytelling
Festival
Visit scenic Mt. Timpanogas and experience one
of the best storytelling festivals in the U.S.
National
Storytelling Festival
Travel to the National Storytelling Festival
and rub shoulders with the best.
People To See
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Get to know Geoffrey Chaucer. He was a master storyteller.
 Barry
McWilliams
Listen to the stories of Barry McWilliam. His motto is "Tell stories!,
Tell stories!! Tell stories!!!" Find out about his storytelling techniques. His Effective
Storytelling : A Manual for Beginners is an excellent resource with
many applications to classroom teaching.
Jay O'Callahan -
Where Imagination Meets the Spoken Word
Meet Jay O'Callahan, professional storyteller. Read his advice on creating
stories.
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.
Things To Do
 StoryArts
According to this site, "Educators have long known that the arts can
contribute
to student academic success and emotional well being. The ancient art
of storytelling is especially well-suited for student exploration. As
a folk art, storytelling is accessible to all ages and abilities. No
special
equipment beyond the imagination and the power of listening and speaking
is needed to create artistic images. As a learning tool, storytelling
can encourage students to explore their unique expressiveness and can
heighten a student's ability to communicate thoughts and feelings in
an
articulate, lucid manner."
StoryTeller.Net
Storytelling is truly an art. Read style tips from professional storytellers
and hear RealAudio clips of their stories.
Handbook
for Storytellers
Find out tips and tricks or effective, captivating storytelling.
Aaron
Shepard's Storytelling Page
Browse through this online guide to storytelling.
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.
Reaching
Students Through Storytelling
Find out tips to
make storytelling in the classroom user-friendly for students. This site
has some great ideas to help get students started. For example, have students
tell a 2 minute scar story to a partner. (Everyone has an interesting scar
story). “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.”
Storytelling
Learn how having students
tell stories ties into the oral language component of language arts core
curriculum. “Storytelling allows
students to internalize important aspects of story beginnings and endings,
settings, characters, and plot lines. It provides practice in expressing
ideas in thought units, using colorful and descriptive language, developing
ideas in sequence, and choosing effective action words.”
ArtsEdge:
Storytelling and the Arts
Discover
the oral tradition of storytelling that is based in myths, legends, and
folk and fairy tales.
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.”
Storytelling
Concept to Remember
Become convinced that there
is room in language arts core for storytelling. Why? Because 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.
Tools
of the Storyteller
Discover
the traits of tellable tales.
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).
Lesson Plans/Webquests
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.
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