Every Child a Storyteller: A Handbook of Ideas

Reach beyond the traditional show-and-tell approach for teaching oral language creative imagination visualization sequential memory and listening skills by incorporating storytelling into your curriculum. The authors show how to use a number of popular forms as bases for childrens storytelling including nursery rhymes fables how-and-why stories tall tales and folktales and fairy tales. Children learn how to use crafts pictures readers theatre and flannel board materials as springboards to storytelling adventures. Numerous patterns are included for activities and a bibliography of resources for use with storytelling rounds out the book. Grades 1-6.