Do Tell!: Storytelling for You and Your Students by Annie Weissman (English) Pap

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Annie Weissman has been telling stories for over 30 years and has been teaching others how to tell stories for almost as long. Here, she gives beginning storytellers step-by-step guidance in getting started, presenting a story, using proverbs to tiptoe into storytelling, and integrating storytelling into school curriculum.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Storytelling—fun and easy? Do tell!• An easy-to-use resource for beginning storytellers• Connect an enjoyable and traditional form of communication (storytelling) with the newer concept of standards-based instruction as it pertains to storytelling• Receive step-by-step guidance on how to tell stories, as well as how to get students to tell stories tooAnnie Weissman has been telling stories for over 30 years, and has been teaching others how to tell stories for almost as long. Here, she gives beginning storytellers step-by-step guidance in getting started (criteria for selection, learning the story), presenting a story (voice, pace, dialects, facial expressions, sound effects, audience participation), using proverbs to tiptoe into storytelling and integrating storytelling into school curriculum (social studies, mythology, tall tales, math and language arts). She also includes specific lesson plans for a unit in which students learn to tell stories, as well as provides a timeline, strategies and ideas for holding a storytelling festival at your school. 32 sample stories from traditional folk literature are included.A bibliography of books with good stories for beginning storytellers, both students and adults, as well as books on the art of storytelling are included.

Author Biography

Annie Weissman is the university supervisor and adjunct faculty at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, AZ. Her published works include Expand and Enrich Reading: Reading and Writing Activities, Grades K-2 and 3-6.

Long Description

Storytelling--fun and easy? Do tell! * An easy-to-use resource for beginning storytellers * Connect an enjoyable and traditional form of communication (storytelling) with the newer concept of standards-based instruction as it pertains to storytelling * Receive step-by-step guidance on how to tell stories, as well as how to get students to tell stories too Annie Weissman has been telling stories for over 30 years, and has been teaching others how to tell stories for almost as long. Here, she gives beginning storytellers step-by-step guidance in getting started (criteria for selection, learning the story), presenting a story (voice, pace, dialects, facial expressions, sound effects, audience participation), using proverbs to tiptoe into storytelling and integrating storytelling into school curriculum (social studies, mythology, tall tales, math and language arts). She also includes specific lesson plans for a unit in which students learn to tell stories, as well as provides a timeline, strategies and ideas for holding a storytelling festival at your school. 32 sample stories from traditional folk literature are included. A bibliography of books with good stories for beginning storytellers, both students and adults, as well as books on the art of storytelling are included.

Details ISBN1586830740 Author Annie Weissman Short Title DO TELL Series Literature and Reading Motivation Language English ISBN-10 1586830740 ISBN-13 9781586830748 Media Book DEWEY 372.677 Year 2002 Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Birth 1948 Subtitle Storytelling for You and Your Students Country of Publication United States Imprint Linworth Publishing, Incorporated Place of Publication Worthington DOI 10.1604/9781586830748 UK Release Date 2002-01-01 NZ Release Date 2002-01-01 US Release Date 2002-01-01 Audience Age 7-17 Pages 90 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Publication Date 2002-01-01 Audience Educational: Primary & Secondary AU Release Date 2001-12-31 We've got this

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