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Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud.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...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Write Me a Picture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, 3rd through 5th graders select related pictures from magazines and newspapers, write captions for each, glue them in sequence on a poster board, and use the pictures to tell a story.
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Read Works

Read Works: Oral Histories

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of listening to and writing about people's life stories. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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The Center for Story and Symbol: Mythos: Joseph Campbell's Mythic Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical piece about the storyteller named Joseph Campbell. This piece was originally featured in New Perspectives Magazine in July 1994.
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Storytime Stick Puppets Family Activity

For Students K - 1st
Make puppets of Molly and her family and friends from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, and use them to retell a story you watched. You can also take Molly on a new adventure by making up your own story. The activity also includes...
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Montgomery CountyPublic Schools

Mcps: Learn and Discuss Udl Story Telling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a topic suggested for a UDL PLS session. Teachers are asked to create a digital story highlighting examples of how they plan for and implement UDL in the classroom, then share it in the PLC.
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Name Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing personal poems. Examples of personal poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson learners create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Place Value Introduction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses storytelling to appeal to the imagination of the child. It serves as an introduction to further exploration in numeration.
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Hiroshima Children's Peace Memorial

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Megan Hicks incorporates origami with storytelling to tell the true story behind the Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Tailor

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Megan Hicks uses origami and storytelling to celebrate the ingenuity of a grandmother who reuses a piece of fabric in a number of beautiful ways.
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University of Pennsylvania

Upenn: Oral Traditions in Africa (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website features a lesson plan that can be used by teachers K-12 on oral traditions found in Africa.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Native American Eagle Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
From several Native American tribes come these stories of Eagle. Values of the culture are preserved in the retelling of these stories that show Eagle's value and symbolism for the Native Americans.
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Personal: Raven and the Man That Sits on the Tides

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Native American Raven tale from a Pacific Northwest tribe provided by Native American Storyteller, Barry McWilliams.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Word by Word a Story Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
For grades 1 to 3, this game has learners write a story by focusing on the word choice.
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Stories From the Web

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Reading skills development program for children from 1 to 14 years old. Children can find short stories, poems, art work, games, pictures, everything divided by age range. Also are useful links for parents and teachers.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Animals and tricksters appear in folk tales from a wide variety of cultures, especially those with strong oral storytelling traditions. Use this lesson plan to introduce students to these characters and the lessons they were used to...
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PBS

Art21: Kiki Smith

For Students 9th - 10th
Kiki is the daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith and began her interest in art at a young age. Her work is primarily figurative. The recurrent subject matter in Smith's work has been the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief,...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Children's Guide: The Art of Romare Bearden [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A colorful, printable packet, from the National Gallery of Art, for students studying the work of Romare Bearden. Includes images of his work, including his well-known collages. Investigates all the important aspects of Bearden's work:...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Anthropological Archives: Lakota Winter Counts: Teachers' Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learn about the Lakota Sioux, and their 'winter counts' pictographic calendars of a community's history. These provide a unique look into the history of the Lakota Sioux people. Winter counts represent a rich Lakota tradition of oral...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Native Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit features the rich oral tradition of Native Americans storytelling in various genres predating the introduction and influence of English writings, bringing three contemporary authors to light. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
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Gabriel Dumont Institute

Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Storytellers

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metis have a multigenerational oral storytelling history involving spirits, supernatural,& the creator. Elders are a connection between the past and future. Learn more about Metis storytellers through the information on this...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Broadcast News Writing Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Sentence structure and choice of words must be accessible to the ear. Conversational style, storytelling, accuracy and simplicity are hallmarks of good broadcast news writing. See sample problems and solutions for news writing.

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