"Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom" shows just how powerful a tool storytelling can be for building vital language skills not just reading and writing, but speaking, listening, visual literacy, and information literacy as well. It is an exceptionally rich and rewarding resource that helps teachers and tellers work together to focus story time on language development.

Moving grade-by-grade from pre-K to middle school, "Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom" offers both research-based ideas and specific lesson plans for using storytelling to promote literacy...