Performance Literacy through Storytelling (Maupin House) - Softcover

Nile Stanley; Brett Dillingham

9781934338414: Performance Literacy through Storytelling (Maupin House)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934338419 ISBN 13: 9781934338414

Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, 2013

Learning how to write and tell a story to an audience directly supports several speaking/listening, reading, and writing Common Core Standards. Teaching to the standards is effortless, motivating, and engaging when storytelling is part of the K-8 teaching week.. Mini-lessons at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels help teachers weave storytelling into the fabric of today’s standards-based classroom and construct their own skillful literacy lessons. Reluctant and striving readers and writers, English language learners, and even more advanced storytellers will love the confidence they gain as they move from developing to delivering a variety of stories for a variety of audiences. Teachers will love the many benefits of “performance literacy,” or teaching children how to write and perform stories: Develop literacy skills―language, vocabulary, comprehension, writing process, speaking, and listening―along with performance skills and self-expression; Easily integrate learning across the content areas; Deepen the connection between home, school, and community; Promote students’ creativity and activate their prior knowledge; and Encourage respect and self-improvement as students learn to critique each other’s stories and performances in a non-threatening manner. Performance Literacy through Storytelling comes complete with a story index, curriculum tie-ins, digital storytelling tips, and information for using the companion website with supplemental multimedia. An audio CD includes 70 minutes of stories and songs from the authors themselves, in addition to other well-known storytellers, performers, and educators: Karen Alexander, John Archambault, Heather Forest, Brenda Hollingsworth-Marley, David Plummer, and Allan Wolf. Don’t just teach literacy―perform it!

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Make storytelling a part of your daily curriculum! This practical guide from Nile Stanley and Brett Dillingham shows busy K8 teachers how to use storytelling to motivate and engage all readers and writers while supporting the standards.

Mini-lessons at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels help teachers weave storytelling into the fabric of today's standards-based classroom and construct their own skillful literacy lessons. Reluctant and striving readers and writers, English language learners, and even more advanced storytellers will love the confidence they gain as they move from developing to delivering a variety of stories for a variety of audiences. Teachers will love the many benefits of "performance literacy," or teaching children how to write and perform stories:

[[ Develop literacy skillslanguage, vocabulary, comprehension, writing process, speaking, and listeningalong with performance skills and self-expression;

[[ Easily integrate learning across the content areas;

[[ Deepen the connection between home, school, and community;

[[ Promote students' creativity and activate their prior knowledge;

[[ Encourage respect and self-improvement as students learn to critique each other's stories and performances in a non-threatening manner.

Developing Literacy Through Storytelling comes complete with a story index, curriculum tie-ins, digital storytelling tips, and information for using the companion website with supplemental multimedia. An audio CD includes more than 70 minutes of stories and songs from the authors themselves, in addition to other well-known storytellers, performers, and educators: Karen Alexander, John Archambault, David Plummer, HeatherForest, Brenda Hollingsworth-Marley, Gene Tagaban, and Allan Wolf.

Don't just teach literacyperform it!

About the Author:

Nile Stanley, Ph.D. Affectionately known as Nile Crocodile, the Reading Reptile, Stanley is a performance poet, digital storyteller, researcher, and professor of reading and education at the University of North Florida. Nile is the author of the book Creating Readers with Poetry (2004). He is a former editor of the Florida Reading Quarterly, and a former president of the New Mexico State Council of the International Reading Association (IRA). He served as an evaluator for the Even Start early literacy project at Florida International University, Miami. Stanley has also been a professor-in-residence at Sallye B. Mathis Elementary School, Lake Forest Elementary School, and Brentwood Elementary School of the Arts (all in Jacksonville). He directs poetry clubs at J. Allen Axson Montessori School and St. Clair Evans Academy, which are supported by gifts from the Cummer Family Foundation. He uses poetry and storytelling to teach literacy to pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students. UNF and Duval County Schools were the 2009 recipients of the National Association for Professional Development Schools Distinguished Program in Teacher Education and received a similar honor from the Association of Teacher Educators in 2003. Stanley is a frequent presenter at international, national, regional, state, and local conferences.

Brett Dillingham, M.Ed. Brett performs and teaches storytelling and performance literacy in Alaska, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Russia, and the continental U.S. His work has been performed at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and he has performed live storytelling on National Public Radio and at the Calgary International Children s Festival, Yukon Performing Arts Centre, National America Reads conference, National Migrant Education conference and the World Congress on Reading. He was selected to be the featured storyteller at the International Reading Association annual conference in 2005 and 2009. In his workshops, Brett teaches writing, storytelling, poetry and drama. He is the past president of the Alaska State Literacy Association (Alaska IRA) and is a published poet and playwright. His first children s book, Raven Day, was published in January 2002 by McGraw-Hill.

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