Previously titled Look What Happened to Frog, this text helps students become storytellers and use storytelling as a teaching technique across the curriculum. It encourages readers to find their own style of storytelling through exploring several different storytelling styles, and helps readers encourage storytelling by children as a learning experience for the children.

The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling

Education & Teaching

Rives Collins

Studying & Workbooks

Gorsuch Scarisbrick Pub

Storytelling plays a central role in empowering educators and learners to synthesize and verbalize personal experiences, communicate feelings, and construct meaning, all of which are processes vital to effective learning. The opening chapters of The Power of Story address the question, "Why should I tell stories?" The next five chapters provide guidelines and ideas for how one actually tells a story. The final chapter provides dozens of useful storytelling activities for classroom use, all of which emphasize the fun of storytelling. Future educators can use these activities as a starting point for their own teaching; all can be easily adapted to specific grade levels and situations. The second edition includes profiles of storytellers of all ages, a chapter on the growing genre of family stories, and numerous print and nonprint resources. The richness of this practical guidebook comes from the authors' own personal experience in storytelling, in teaching storytelling, and in using storytelling in their teaching. 
Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Farris-Werderich, Language Arts: Process, Product, and Assessment, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781577666837).

Pamela J. Cooper

Schools & Teaching

Waveland Pr Inc.

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