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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students examine how African Americans escaping slavery used storytelling to communicate. They listen to and read the lyrics for the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd, view the Reading Rainbow video, and write and illustrate their own story. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students investigate the June 2004 Transit of Venus, write a screen play, and produce a movie or animation of the transit including a narration. The difference between storytelling and storyboarding is made clear in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore Japanese folk tales and create a performance that tells one of the Japanese folk stories. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students study the importance of the Storyteller in ancient times as well as in modern times. They realize that this is an art essential to the development and evolution of the mind and that today more than ever we need to rely on Storytelling to fight the mental passivity resulting from the use and abuse of TV. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students read a picture storybook. They tell why they like or dislike it and with a partner present the book to the class in a creative way. They write an original story, share in reading a story and practice speaking in Gullah. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students analyze a historical document. They review oral histories as a tradition of storytelling in Native cultures and listen to an excerpt from The Life and Traditions of the Red Man. They write an episode or story that has been passed to them by their family and evaluate it as a historical document. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students research activities on a festive/seasonal theme. They work on speaking activities like Christmas wishes. They analyze a cross cultural comparison of two festive/seasonal themes. Students include topics like Christmas and pets, dramas with sketches and role play. They also include storytelling for those special moments with loved ones. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the concept of storytelling and how it is used in the study of literature. They develop the skills of careful listening and oral communication with the reading of short stories and the subsequent presentations made during classroom discussion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students create an art project about something they like to do outside. After brainstorming a list of things to do outside as a class, they draw out their favorite activity using a Sharpie marker. Once pictures are drawn, they add color with crayon and use their storytelling skills to describe their picture to the class. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students are introduced to the strategy TPRS (Total Physical Response Storytelling) for studying world languages. They utilize this strategy as a vehicle to storytelling and expand their vocabulary by contextualizing it in high interest stories through hearing, seeing, acting out, retelling, revising and rewriting. Full Review »
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