The Storytelling Schools Method - Handbook for Teachers
Title | The Storytelling Schools Method - Handbook for Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Guillain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2020-09 |
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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.
The Storytelling School
Title | The Storytelling School PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Smith |
Publisher | Storytelling |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781907359385 |
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.
Imperative Narratives
Title | Imperative Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tveten |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1475850832 |
Imperative Narratives is a guidebook for all educators on how to become a more effective teacher, staff member, or administrator. It covers every aspect of storytelling, including how to choose the stories you tell, various methods and modalities for delivering those stories, and the tricks to becoming a master storyteller.
Teaching as Story Telling
Title | Teaching as Story Telling PDF eBook |
Author | Kieran Egan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1989-03-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226190327 |
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.
147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell
Title | 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2021-05-17 |
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Here is the perfect collection for any teacher who needs a sourcebook of great traditional stories for children aged 5-11 to work from. This book is a handy one-stop shop of 147 traditional stories to retell, with an index linking all the stories to topics, values, plot types, genre, age group and country of origin. The stories come with an extensive sources and alternate print and web versions for teachers to use when working with the stories. All are written in the storyteller's voice for easy retelling by teachers and students. Chris Smith helped develop the Storytelling Schools model, 'where children learn to be storytellers' during more than ten years research in UK primary schools. He produced this collection in response to teachers' continuing requests for help in finding the right stories for the right topic. Now you can do it yourself! . This collection is the ideal companion book to The Storytelling Schools Method: Handbook for Teachers.
History Through Stories
Title | History Through Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Smith |
Publisher | Storytelling School |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-07-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781907359446 |
Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.
Story by Story
Title | Story by Story PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Chace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781624910302 |
A professional storyteller and educator's experience-based handbook on creating a student storytelling group, coaching K-12 performers, content selection, and methodologies for incorporating storytelling, the curriculum or programming of non-school groups such as scouts, with pre-designed handouts, awards, etc.