Super Simple Storytelling A Can-Do Guide for Every Classroom, Every Day

Name: Super Simple Storytelling A Can-Do Guide for Every Classroom, Every Day
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ISBN: 9781563086816

ISBN-10: 1563086816

ISBN-13: 9781563086816

Edition: 2000

Authors: Kendall Haven

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Designed for educators and other professionals who want to improve communication skills and boost learning, these simple storytelling techniques are as fun as they are effective. Haven's breakthrough approach helps you build on your natural storytelling abilities to refine your communication skills in the classroom, library, and even at home. This book has everything you need to get started, including detailed directions and guides for more than 40 powerful storytelling exercises to use with your class. You'll find the Golden List of what an audience really needs from storytelling, a proven, step-by-step system for successfully learning and remembering a story, the Great-Amazing-Never-Fail…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



List of Figures


Introduction



Natural Storytelling: 100% Natural You--With No Artificial Additives


The Right Question Gathers the Right Answer


Your Natural Style


The Golden List: The Audience Speaks


The Lemon List



Anatomy of A Story: The Power Behind the Words


What Is a Story?


Fiction Is Folks


The Core of a Character


Layers of the Onion


Evaluating a Story



Learning and Telling Made Easy: The Step-by-Step Super Simple System


To Memorize, or Not to Memorize? That Is the Question


What Super Simple Tellers Learn


Meet the Orchestra


Meet the Conductor


The Super Simple System for Learning a Story


The Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net



Telling Tidbits


Tips for Telling a Story


All Those Who Are Creative, Stand Up


Storytelling and Copyright


Gestures


Props, Costumes, and Other Extras


Audience Participation


The Sore Throat Blues



Storytelling in the Curriculum: Putting the Magic to Work


Teaching with Telling


Teaching Language Arts Through Stories


Stories in Other Curriculum Areas



Teaching Students to Tell


The Value of Student Storytelling


Teaching Students to Tell the Super Simple Way


Evaluating Student Storytellers



Super Simple Storytelling Exercises



The Wave Game



What'd You Have for Dinner?



Your Favorite Story



What Makes It Real?



What Do You Remember?



What Makes It Fun to Listen To?



What Is a Story?



Is It a Story Yet?



The Big Three



The Memorization Blues



Stand and Watch



Describe the Scene



Say It How?



I Forgot My Homework



You Want Me to Go There?



Hitch Hiker



Mum's the Word



Gesture a Word



Exaggeration



A Better Excuse



Role Play



Interrupter



The Tell-About Game



One-on-One-on-One-on-One



Where's the Camera?



The Scene Game



The Character Game



Be Your Character



The Retell Game



Where Images Come From



She Entered the Room



The 30-Second Story



Interrogate the Character



Judge the Characters



Shadow Voices



The History Game



Sneak Them In



The Circle Story



Pass the Picture



Ruler of the Island



Stage Coach



The Definition of Storytelling


Why Define Storytelling?


What Is Storytelling?


What Isn't Storytelling?


Roles and Responsibilities in a Storytelling Event


From the Kitchen Table to Carnegie Hall: The Levels of Storytelling


What Is a Story?


References


Magazines


Books and Articles About Storytelling


Guides to Stories for the Curriculum


Index


About the Author