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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
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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Jakes Online: Digital Storytelling

For Students Pre-K - 1st
David Jakes has compiled a very useful list of articles, tools and examples to help you learn about digital storytelling and use it with your classes.
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Storytelling Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: The Elements of Digital Storytelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn the theory and elements of digital storytelling, with plenty of real-world examples provided for each element. While the purpose of the site is not specifically to instruct teachers how to use digital storytelling in the classroom,...
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Delaware Art Museum: The Art of Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Science as Storytelling for Teaching the Nature of Science

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For this activity, students first read an essay entitled Science As Storytelling, then respond to the questions accompanying it. The purpose of the lesson is for students to develop a deeper understanding of science as more than just...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storytelling in Ritual and Performance in Bali

For Students 9th - 10th
Balinese stories are continually told and retold. The Kayonan is the first and last puppet seen in the Balinese wayang shadow theater. As it dances, it symbolizes the living tradition of storytelling that deeply explains and entertains,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Pixar in a Box: The Art of Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the storytelling process at Pixar.
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Digital Storytelling: A Practical Classroom Management Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the pre-production phase of a digital storytelling project, and includes some practical advice for using digital storytelling in a classroom.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....
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News Lab: Elements of Great Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a great site for broadcast journalists; it focuses on the elements that make a story great. You can find tips on writing from some of the top people in the industry.
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Other

Story Arts:storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this site to get pupils interested in and enthusiastic about storytelling with these cool lesson ideas. Look through these short descriptions of lesson ideas to help develop a lesson to fit your classroom needs.
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Articles About Storytelling

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site contains links to five articles about storytelling by Heather Forest. Articles include the following: "Crafting Personal Vision in Telling Folktales," "The Voice as an Instrument," "Copyright and Fair Use of Published...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Digital Storytelling With Class Flow Technology

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Digital storytelling is the combination of the ancient art of oral storytelling with today's technology, enabling students to write their own uniquely personal tales and then personalize them even more...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Bell South Digital Storyteller: Generations of Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information and advice for participating in a digital storytelling project that documents the experiences and memories of those who have served the United States in war or other military conflicts. Step-by-step instructions, useful...
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Univ. Of Oregon: Writing for Multimedia: Storytelling: Image, Video, Audio [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Storytelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of images of people listening to and telling stories give your writers ideas. These paintings and illustrations point to the universal nature of telling and listening.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

David Weisner: The Art of Visual Storytelling

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a biography and description of David Weisner's books. Wonderful illustrations and a list of his books available on this site.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Personal Storytelling With Accordion Books [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year and plan the...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
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Story Arts: Listening Skills Table for Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Two rubrics to assess a listener's attention during a storytelling session. The first is used to record frequency of audience reactions. The second is used to access the listener's level of comprehension.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Digital Storytelling With Photo Story3

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the student or teacher an introduction to Microsoft PhotoStory 3, a free program which can make photographs into movies.
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Electronic Portfolios Digital Stories of Deep Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This research paper discusses the concepts of "Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning" and "Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio" by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development...

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