A Teacher

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A Teachers Guide to beginning the Art of
Storytelling

• As inspired by
• Karen Gallas

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From Karens bookImagination and Literacy

• Imagination and learning, when paired, can lead
  to joy, ecstasy, and encounters with the sublime,
  and that is what education ought to be about

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What is Storytelling(according to the National
Council of the Teachers of English)

• Storytelling is relating a tale to one or more
  listeners through voice and gesture. It is not
  the same as reading a story aloud or reciting a
  piece from memory or acting out a dramathough it
  shares common characteristics with these arts.
  The storyteller looks into the eyes of the
  audience and together they compose the tale. The
  storyteller begins to see and re-create, through
  voice and gesture, a series of mental images the
  audience, from the first moment of listening,
  squints, stares, smiles, leans forward or falls
  asleep, letting the teller know whether to slow
  down, speed up, elaborate, or just finish.

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The Storyteller has a Relationship with the
Audience

• Each listener, as well as each teller, actually
  composes a unique set of story images derived
  from meanings associated with words, gestures,
  and sounds. The experience can be profound,
  exercising the thinking and touching the emotions
  of both teller and listener.

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http//www.aaronshep.com/

• This website has lots of information for
  teachers, librarians, storytellers, childrens
  authors, parents, kids, and moreall from
  award-winning author Aaron Shepard.

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High-tech Storytellinghttps//www.eschoolnews.com
/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID5602

• Storytelling used to be something kids did
  huddled around a campfire or sitting
  Indian-style, books in hand, in a semicircle on
  the classroom floor. But as computers and other
  high-tech gadgets proliferate in schools, a new
  form of the art has emerged digital
  storytelling, where a combination of multimedia
  tools--including graphics, audio, video,
  animation, and web publishing--are called upon to
  bring the story to life.

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http//www.proteacher.com/070163.shtml

• This wesite has a wealth of information for
  teachers about storytelling festivals, exploring
  cultural roots through storytelling, games for
  teaching storytelling, etc.

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http//www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/index.html

• This website includes a collection of
  storytelling activities-developed by
  storyteller/author Heather Forest for her
  storytelling workshops with students, teachers,
  and librarians-can be expanded by educators into
  various academic areas.

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http//www.talltalesaudio.com/teachers.html

• Establishing a Story of the Day program is
  one of the best ways to start storytelling in
  your classroom, and this website will tell you
  how.

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http//www.sbac.edu/media/storytelling_tips_for_t
eachers.htm

• This website has Storytelling tips for Teachers
• These tips are taken from the May 1991 issue of
  Instructor.  The article is called A Teachers
  Guide to Storytelling.
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