storytelling powerpoint
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10 tips for storytelling in your classroom
• The boy who wanted to live forever: Part one: Departure and the Journey.
• Why storytelling?• Tips and strategies ‘It’s the way you tell them’• Promoting Storytelling in your classroom• Retelling today’s story• Resources• The boy who wanted to live forever: Part two: The
return.
Introduction and outline of the workshop.
• The boy who wanted to live forever: Part one: Departure and the Journey.
• Story telling: the first part• Sharing a story in pairs• Prediction• Changing the narrator• Activities: book making, storyboard/comic
strip, notes for retelling, puppet making etc
Why tell stories?‘I like my teacher telling stories because I can see what he is saying,’ Gary aged ten Story serves throughout our lives as a framework for sharing, contemplating and evaluating where we are on the journey In a multi cultural schools such as ours, the stories from many different cultures not only enriches our experiences but helps to to create a community of sharing and belonging Storytelling can reveal patterns of narrative, plot, perspectives and sequences that can enrich and engage with the writing process Writing develops on a sea of talking. Narratives help us to influence our abilities in other modes of discourse such as argument Live listening is participating not passive receiving and extends the climate for the development of oracy skills
11 ways of choosing and retelling a story with children
1. Choose a story2. Find an audience3. Story pictures4. Story swap5. Story games6. Story patterns7. Telling into writing8. Writing into telling9. Anecdotes and personal stories10. Chain whispers11. Making changes
Choose a story
• Anthologies• Folk tales• Visitors• Human Libraries• Audio & video resources
Story swap
• Swap between teacher and student• Student and teacher• Student and student• Class to class• School to school• School to community
Tips and hints 1
Don't learn every word try telling it out loud to yourself a couple of times.
A set of cue cards may help you to remember the
narrative sequence at first.
Use a tape recorder to prepare your telling and, if you are confident, to record classroom telling. Your tone of voice should be of one sharing secrets or juicy bits of gossip to establish an intimate atmosphere.
I like you telling stories because you look at us.
Tips and hints 2Rhythm and repetition in the storyteller's voice encourage participation.
Make good use of eye contact and gestures throughout the telling.
Gather the children who are to hear the story around you as closely as you can.Have a special storytelling chair, as part of a classroom story area. Use props e.g. try dressing up or using puppets or artifacts. Relax and enjoy yourself !
Story Resources 1Different versions of stories can be created in many ways. Interviews, role plays, verbal recording of places, events and situations. Stories can be told again in the same way, or in a different version or form, from a different point of view or before and after the vents they have heard.
Retelling is at the heart of story telling. From visual, written, oral and audio starting points the children can retell stories, from the television, from games they have played, from films, from their parents, grandparents
Stop the story. How did it change on retelling it? Which parts changed? Why? Can we add anything or take anything away? What affect would that have? Does the story have a message, an ethic or a bias- how can we change that? What will happen next?
Talking partners. Storytelling is about listening, sharing and communication. Children can cooperate and discuss a story together and give feedback on content, style and impact.
‘When I listen to someone it is like saying I am interested, like I am her friend and that I want to share’ Joanne 12
Story resources 2An audience is essential, a mirror for the story and the story teller, talking and
listening are enactive. Stories are changed, modified retold to many audiences
at different times. Children, classes, other teachers, parents schools over the
internet, filmed, ‘Skyped.’ Audiences can reciprocate by being part of the story
or story tellers themselves.
Storytelling objects are essential props- especially for English Language
Learners. Fabrics, stones, jars, man made and natural materials or a dressing
up box. All can promote, extend and fix stories within a context that is here and
now, as well as being starting or end points.
Story Chests are also great resources. Piles of words based around the four
story components- ‘characters,’ ‘events,’ ‘places’ and ‘special objects’ that can
be provided and ‘scaffolded’ by the teacher for all learning abilities
Story telling discussions
• Who tells stories?• Where do they come from?• Where do we hear them?• Who do you tell stories too?• What are stories for?• What qualities do you need to be a good
storyteller?
The boy who wanted to live forever: Part two: The return.
A story frame for all story types of stories
• THE ORDINARY WORLD. Change• THE CALL TO ADVENTURE. Opportunity• REFUSAL OF THE CALL. Doubt• MEETING WITH THE MENTOR. Belief • CROSSING THE THRESHOLD. The Leap• TESTS, ALLIES AND ENEMIES Weathering early storms• A NEW APPROACH. Allies• THE ORDEAL. The test of fear and a call to courage• THE REWARD. The Boon. The Elixir• THE ROAD BACK. Bringing the treasure home• THE RESURRECTION/TRANSFORMATION• RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR. The power to transform
Acknowledgements
• AEMS, storytelling group Cheshire, UK 1991• thewritersjourney.com• The Hero with a Thousand faces, Joseph
Campbell• Italo Calvino: Italian Folk Tales
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