The Storytelling School

Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Storytelling
ISBN: 9781907359385
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Handbook for teachers using Storytelling Schools methodology to teach literacy in schools. This dynamic approach to developing literacy helps children improve their writing, listening, empathy, speaking, reading, comprehension, performance, memory, imagination and confidence. It shows teachers the stages for learning how to tell stories, how to use stories in their teaching and how to teach children to tell their own stories with easy to use methods. In a storytelling school, all children learn how to be storytellers as a way to improve literacy and learning subjects across the curriculum.

The Storytelling Schools Method - Handbook for Teachers

Author: Adam Guillain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Storytelling Schools is a tried and tested methodology for learning. It combines oracy, creativity and literacy into a single educational model. At its heart is fluent communication. Students learn to be storytellers, performing fiction and non-fiction pieces as a way of internalising language, structure and meaning in a simple and engaging way. The first Storytelling Schools handbook was published in 2013.Since then, the method has been adopted in hundreds of schools across the UK and beyond. This new handbook includes a range of new insights and approaches which have evolved over these seven years. The handbook is aimed at early years, primary school and middle school teachers as well as home educators. It will show you how to: Tell stories to your students Teach your students to retell the stories Link the stories to creative arts and creative writing Apply the method to non-fiction communication Apply the method across the curriculum Create new stories from old.

History Through Stories

Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Storytelling School
ISBN: 9781907359446
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.

David Goes to School

Author: David Shannon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545529999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each schoolday with trouble-and are sure to bring a smile to even the best-behaved reader.

The Truth about Stories

Author: Thomas King
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887846963
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Teaching as Story Telling

Author: Kieran Egan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226190327
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Story Telling shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. In his innovative book, Kieran Egan refashions the ancient function of the storyteller with such clarity that any teacher can step into the role with confidence. Not only does Egan's book make the reader look anew at what is too often taken for granted about the ways in which children learn, it opens up a range of critical questions about our orientation to "objectives" and to either/ors when it comes to the affective and the cognitive. - Back cover.

Storytelling with Data

Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119002265
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Starting School: Do I Have to Go to School?

Author: Pat Thomas
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1526305216
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
In simple and reassuring terms, this entertaining book explores for young children aged approximately 3-6 what it is like to start school and how the reader might feel about it. Discussion boxes offer an adult opportunities to discuss the issues directly with their child audience. Charmingly clear illustrations give readers immediate access to complex situations and feelings and provide further stimulus for discussion. Notes for teachers and parents, plus suggested further resources, help adults to make the most of the learning opportunities inherent in the book. Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by a very experienced children's book artist, this is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years.

147 Storytelling Games and Creative Activities for the Classroom and the Home

Author: Kate Barron
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Book Description
This book from the Storytelling Schools team provides a clear, concise and rich source of ideas for how to learn and play through storytelling. Sections include speaking and listening games, learning to tell a story, drama, movement, music, poetry, writing, story recycling and story creation. All activities are tried and tested in Storytelling Schools classrooms across the UK and beyond. They provide a rich addition to every educator's kitbag of ways to inspire, energise and engage through storytelling. Each exercise is presented in brief outline for the educator to adopt and adapt as they need. The book is suitable for classroom teachers, early years workers, home educators, team leaders and anyone who wants to play around with stories in a creative and engaging way. It is also a great resource for parents who like to play at storytelling and storymaking with their children.

Amik Loves School

Author: Katherena Vermette
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553798112
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Amik loves going to school, but when he shares this with his grandfather, he finds out Moshoom attended residential school. At Moshoom’s school, students were forbidden from speaking their language. It sounds very different from Amik's school, so Amik has an idea… In this heartwarming story, an Anishinaabe child shows his grandfather how his school celebrates the culture that residential schools tried to erase. A pronunciation guide for the Anishnaabemowin words can be found at the back of the book. Rich in culture and grounded in traditional knowledge, Katherena Vermette’s The Seven Teachings Stories series features themes of love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth. Contemporary Indigenous children explore the Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe through stories of home and family that will look familiar to all young readers in these books for ages 3–5.