Curated OER
Felt Story Adventure
Students create a story and use a felt story board to build the story.
Curated OER
Spelling and Reading
First graders participate in a lesson in order to improve spelling and writing skills. They take words from an assigned list and create their own sentences. They also write a story taken from an illustration.
Curated OER
Creating A Story
Second graders practice the necessary steps that should be taken in order to create a story from scratch. They brainstorm as a class in order to come up with different ideas. Students write a story that includes a plot, characters, and...
Curated OER
Painters as Authors
Second graders explore artists as authors. They discuss the stories that their pictures tell. Students describe what story they think the artist is trying to tell in their pictures. Students search the Internet and choose a piece of...
Curated OER
Introduce Vocabulary: Tar Beach
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary instructional activity, students read the book Tar Beach and discuss the setting and plot with their classmates. Students define a list of...
Curated OER
Touring the Museum
Second graders create a living sculpture using their peers. Working with a partner, they manipulate their partner's arms and legs to create a living statue. They create a story to go along with their sculpture, explaining what the...
Curated OER
Fearless Fables: The Moon in Mill Pond
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students participate in reading a fable about some animals who lacked good sense. There are no questions about the story on this page.
Curated OER
Canvas Transformations
Students transform the content of paintings currently in the collection hanging in the Utah Fine Arts Museum by using the four theatre techniques of storytelling, kinetics images, soundscapes, and ritual building.
Curated OER
Making Cultural Connections
Pupils explore cultures through storytelling. They read African folktales. Students discuss characteristics of folktales. They research and write a folktale that includes an animal. Additional cross curriculum activities are included.
Curated OER
Activity Plan 5-6: Let's Create Stories!
Students examine wordless books and other pictures in order to learn how the teacher "reads a picture" to tell a story about it. In this early writing lesson, students then create their own picture for story telling by painting....
Curated OER
A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay
Learners create story telling plates based on David Stabley's technique. They incorporate art history and aesthetics with hands on activity.
Curated OER
Similarities Between African Folktales And French Folktales
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...
Curated OER
The Travels of Babar: An Adventure in Scales
Students become familiar with the musical notify that are associated with the character in Monstel's The Travels of Babar: An Adventure in Scales, so that they can listen attentively to the performance and understand and appreciate ow...
Curated OER
Homer's Odyssey:The Original Incredible Journey
Students study Greek culture, particularly as it relates to Homer's Odyssey. They examine how human activities shape the earth's surface and identify forces that influence a culture's beliefs and traditions. They determine that...
Curated OER
Storybuilding Games
Learners are encouraged to use their powers of observatios to create a tale. They play the storytelling Circle Game. Students allow the youngest player to pick out four things they can see outside the window. They start the game once...
Curated OER
Other Worlds
Students explore the variety of 'other worlds' in fiction and their uses in reflecting our own. They explore the role of myth and
legend as the basis for modern story telling. Book extracts are provide for classroom use.
Curated OER
Retell A Story Through Dance
Students tell stories through dance. For this ballet lesson, students learn pantomime dance skills and examine "The Nutcracker" ballet performances as they examine ballet as storytelling.
Curated OER
Storymaking Through Pantomime
Middle schoolers explore performing arts by participating in a role-play activity. In this storytelling instructional activity, students utilize their physical expressions to particpate in a pantomime performance. Middle schoolers...
Curated OER
Here's My Family
Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...
August House
When Turtle Grew Feathers
Friendship is a valuable part of growing up. Learn about the importance of friendship with a variety of activities based on When Turtle Grew Feathers by Tim Tingle. Kids practice making musical instruments, discussing plot points,...
Smithsonian Institution
Korean War
North and South Korea: two regions divided. The story of the Korean War describes the events that occurred when these two regions' ideologies clashed. The resource uses various images and descriptions of artifacts, in addition to...
EngageNY
What Gives Stories Their Power?
Read to me! Scholars get lost in a picture book read aloud of The People Could Fly. They discuss text-dependent questions and talk with partners about the meaning of the story. They then study an image in the book to determine the power...
EngageNY
The Storyteller’s Toolbox and Excerpt 4 First Read
It's story time! Scholars take a look through the eyes of a storyteller as the teacher reads aloud The People Could Fly. They also listen as the story is played on video. Learners then answer questions about the reader's facial...
Other popular searches
- Digital Storytelling
- African Storytelling
- Oral Storytelling
- Storytelling Props
- Children's Storytelling
- Music Storytelling
- Storytelling Grade 8
- Storytelling Native
- Storytelling With Props
- Storytelling With Music
- Social Studies Storytelling
- Islamic Storytelling