Super Simple Storytelling: A Can-Do Guide for Every Classroom, Every Day / Edition 1

by Kendall Haven

Overview

Designed for educators and other professionals who want to improve communication skills and boost learning, these simple storytelling techniques are as fun as they are effective. Haven's breakthrough approach helps you build on your natural storytelling abilities to refine your communication skills in the classroom, library, and even at home. This book has everything you need to get started, including detailed directions and guides for more than 40 powerful storytelling exercises to use with your class. You'll find the Golden List of what an audience really needs from storytelling, a proven, step-by-step system for successfully learning and remembering a story, the Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net to prevent storytelling disasters, a comprehensive discussion of the proven value of storytelling in education, and more. The book also shows you how to effectively use storytelling across the curriculum to capture student interest and boost learning. It even provides guidelines for teachi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563086816
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/15/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

KENDALL HAVEN is a nationally recognized master storyteller and the author of numerous books, including Marvels of Math, Write Right!, and Close Encounters with Deadly Dangers. A former research scientist, he is based in Fulton, California.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	ix
	Introduction	xi
Part I	Natural Storytelling: 100% Natural You--With No Artificial Additives	1
	The Right Question Gathers the Right Answer	1
	Your Natural Style	3
	The Golden List: The Audience Speaks	9
	The Lemon List	12
Part II	Anatomy of A Story: The Power Behind the Words	15
	What Is a Story?	15
	Fiction Is Folks	18
	The Core of a Character	21
	Layers of the Onion	29
	Evaluating a Story	32
Part III	Learning and Telling Made Easy: The Step-by-Step Super Simple System	35
	To Memorize, or Not to Memorize? That Is the Question	35
	What Super Simple Tellers Learn	38
	Meet the Orchestra	42
	Meet the Conductor	44
	The Super Simple System for Learning a Story	46
	The Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net	57
Part IV	Telling Tidbits	63
	Tips for Telling a Story	63
	All Those Who Are Creative, Stand Up	65
	Storytelling and Copyright	65
	Gestures	67
	Props, Costumes, and Other Extras	68
	Audience Participation	71
	The Sore Throat Blues	72
Part V	Storytelling in the Curriculum: Putting the Magic to Work	75
	Teaching with Telling	75
	Teaching Language Arts Through Stories	76
	Stories in Other Curriculum Areas	88
Part VI	Teaching Students to Tell	107
	The Value of Student Storytelling	107
	Teaching Students to Tell the Super Simple Way	108
	Evaluating Student Storytellers	116
Part VII	Super Simple Storytelling Exercises	119
Exercise 1.1	The Wave Game	119
Exercise 1.2	What'd You Have for Dinner?	121
Exercise 1.3	Your Favorite Story	123
Exercise 1.4	What Makes It Real?	125
Exercise 1.5	What Do You Remember?	127
Exercise 1.6	What Makes It Fun to Listen To?	129
Exercise 2.1	What Is a Story?	131
Exercise 2.2	Is It a Story Yet?	133
Exercise 2.3	The Big Three	137
Exercise 3.1	The Memorization Blues	140
Exercise 3.2	Stand and Watch	142
Exercise 3.3	Describe the Scene	144
Exercise 3.4	Say It How?	146
Exercise 3.5	I Forgot My Homework	149
Exercise 3.6	You Want Me to Go There?	151
Exercise 3.7	Hitch Hiker	153
Exercise 3.8	Mum's the Word	155
Exercise 3.9	Gesture a Word	159
Exercise 3.10	Exaggeration	161
Exercise 3.11	A Better Excuse	163
Exercise 3.12	Role Play	165
Exercise 3.13	Interrupter	167
Exercise 4.1	The Tell-About Game	170
Exercise 4.2	One-on-One-on-One-on-One	172
Exercise 4.3	Where's the Camera?	175
Exercise 4.4	The Scene Game	178
Exercise 4.5	The Character Game	180
Exercise 4.6	Be Your Character	184
Exercise 4.7	The Retell Game	186
Exercise 4.8	Where Images Come From	188
Exercise 4.9	She Entered the Room	190
Exercise 5.1	The 30-Second Story	192
Exercise 5.2	Interrogate the Character	196
Exercise 5.3	Judge the Characters	198
Exercise 5.4	Shadow Voices	200
Exercise 5.5	The History Game	202
Exercise 6.1	Sneak Them In	204
Exercise 6.2	The Circle Story	206
Exercise 6.3	Pass the Picture	208
Exercise 6.4	Ruler of the Island	210
Exercise 6.5	Stage Coach	212
Appendix	The Definition of Storytelling	215
	Why Define Storytelling?	215
	What Is Storytelling?	216
	What Isn't Storytelling?	217
	Roles and Responsibilities in a Storytelling Event	217
	From the Kitchen Table to Carnegie Hall: The Levels of Storytelling	218
	What Is a Story?	219
	References	221
	Magazines	221
	Books and Articles About Storytelling	221
	Guides to Stories for the Curriculum	222
	Index	225
	About the Author	229