Lesson plans and examples will help you incorporate the national language arts standards covered by standardized tests and implement the Information Power II standards into your next storytime. Specific content areas and lesson plans are included and cover literary elements, Caldecott books, folk tales, genres and nonfiction. Strategies like pair share, Big Books, reader's theater, puppet shows and choral responses encourage all students to participate and respond in storytime reading lessons, while brainstorming, composing and publishing strategies encourage participation in storytime...
Lesson plans and examples will help you incorporate the national language arts standards covered by standardized tests and implement the Informatio...
An easy-to-use resource for beginning storytellers
Connect an enjoyable and traditional form of communication (storytelling) with the newer concept of standards-based instruction as it pertains to storytelling
Receive step-by-step guidance on how to tell stories, as well as how to get students to tell stories too
Annie Weissman has been telling stories for over 30 years, and has been teaching others how to tell stories for almost as long. Here, she gives beginning storytellers step-by-step guidance in getting started (criteria for...
Storytelling--fun and easy? Do tell
An easy-to-use resource for beginning storytellers
Connect an enjoyable and traditional form of communi...
Go above and beyond basic story-time These terrific teaching tools turn stories into fun, exciting reading and writing activities that can be used throughout the day. Clearly stated learning objectives meet NCTE standards to help make story-time an integral part of your reading and writing curriculum. Both books are divided into helpful categories: elements of fiction, Caldecott books, folk tales, fantasy, genre fiction, and nonfiction. Each section includes activities, reproducibles, and a related bibliography.
Go above and beyond basic story-time These terrific teaching tools turn stories into fun, exciting reading and writing activities that can be used...
This is poignant tale of lives changing. Eighty-year old Rae Hoffman shrugs off her forgetfulness. When she gets into a car accident and doesn't remember it, her three daughters know it's time to step in. Barbara, 56, Rae's eldest daughter who lives in a nearby suburb of New Jersey, freaks out at her mother's decline. Barbara is facing her own challenge of making a life for herself now that her children are grown and independent. Ellen, single and the youngest daughter at forty-eight, is a research scientist at a university in Iowa and too busy to deal with the situation. She's vaguely...
This is poignant tale of lives changing. Eighty-year old Rae Hoffman shrugs off her forgetfulness. When she gets into a car accident and doesn't remem...
