Make storytelling part of your daily K-8 curriculum while engaging all readers and writers! Mini-lessons at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels help teachers weave storytelling into today s standards-based classroom and construct their own literacy lessons. Reluctant and striving readers and writers, English language learners, and even advanced storytellers will move from developing to delivering a variety of stories.
Performance literacy teaching children how to write and perform stories works across the curriculum and develops literacy skills in language, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening. Complete with a story index, curriculum tie-ins, digital storytelling tips, a companion website, and an audio CD with 70 minutes of stories and songs from the authors and other well-known performers and educators. Don t just teach literacy perform it!