Crayola
Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
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Australian Centre for the Moving Image: Storyboard
Use this online resource to create your own storyboard.
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Storyboard That
This resource lets the user create their own story, with many colorful costumes, character types and tools to choose from.
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Milwaukee Public Museum: Indian Country: Oral Tradition
The Milwaukee Public Museum provides this introduction to the Native American oral tradition and oral literature of the Great Lakes region. Describes common themes and characters, including trickster characters and windingo (ice...
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University of Virginia: Welcome to Digital Storyteller
Helping classrooms to utilize more technology, the University of Virginia has developed this website to provide a source for building digital storytellers.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures
For this interactive lesson, learners learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Tales of Everyday Life
Students explore how events from everyday life can become stories, and how different types of narratives-such as ships' logs and journals-can tell the story of the same event. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Writers' Workshop
Students draw on their understanding of different types of narratives to inspire and enrich their own storytelling. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Performance and Art
Learners explore how stories can be told without words, such as through performance and art. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Oral Traditions
Students talk about what makes a good story, look at the oral tradition of storytelling, and compare and contrast stories from two different cultural traditions. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities!
Whether you're looking for music and dance activities, science experiments, family-friendly adventures, or learning about animals (plus more!), you will find media and activity resources in the Camp PBS LearningMedia collection. We've...
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Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Making Family Traditions Packet: Pre K and K
Use these family traditions-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Reach: Recipe for Writing!
REACH for more! Be an author! Write and illustrate your very own story by mixing up a simple recipe of WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and ENDING.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Protecting Our Planet Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn that they can make choices that can reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Adventure Stories
Come and play with Clifford the Big Red Dog! Your favorite big red dog is back with all new stories, songs and adventures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog
Through the power of play and imagination, Clifford and Emily Elizabeth brave exciting new adventures together, explore their island home, meet new friends, and learn that the differences between us- even big, red differences- can often...
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Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Lesson: Exploring Russian Folktales
Expand on your middle schoolers' knowledge of storytelling with this lesson plan on Russian folktales. Provides several links to examples, assessment criteria, and a short list of other sources.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
For this lesson plan, students will consider "Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
University of Massachusetts
Aesop's Fables: The Bundle of Sticks
Read this beautifully illustrated fable of Aesop, "The Bundle of Sticks." Illustrated by college student, Michael Chan, the story progresses to its moral and meaning, "union gives strength". Also find the history of Aesop and his fables,...
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh:folk Links Folk:fairy Tale Site
This site offers links to folk tale and fairy tale sites. Students and teachers will benefit from this useful reference guide.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: In on a Secret? That's Dramatic Irony
Christopher Warner identifies the storytelling device of dramatic irony. [2:50]
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Pbs: Multimedia Storytelling (A Lesson Plan Family Memories)
A lesson for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.
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Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...