Saturday, September 10, 2011

Story telling with chlildren

Such a wonderful book about being a storyteller for your children:

Storytelling with Children

and some of the books that this book recommends:

When talked about how to memorize a story, one way to to use a dance - form or direction.  Stories move along in organized patterns, and recognizing these patterns helps us remember.

A circular story moves steadily in one direction and return safely to its original
eg. The Mulberry Bush
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush PB w CD (Sing Along With Fred Penner)

A spiral moves out and returns us along the same route, slightly or perhaps greatly changed.
eg. Pelle's New Coat
Pelle's New Suit

An accumulation story piles up to a finale containing all the details of the story, and sometimes reduces back again to the original form.
eg. The Farmer in the Dell
The Farmer in The Dell 

also,
This Is The House That Jack Built (Classic Books With Holes)   The Gingerbread Man  







Linear stories move out toward a new destination, gaining strength sometimes through repetition, such as:

Three Little Pigs (Flip-Up Fairy Tales)  Three Billy Goats Gruff (Flip-Up Fairy Tales) (Flip Up Fairy Tales)

Stories that end with a moral:
Jataka Tales   Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition   The Original Fables of La Fontaine - Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney

on story structures from around the world
The Folktale


Variation to old stories:
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

A good exercise with children to imagine your story characters coming to a castle or a cave where the pictures are on the wall or have the children step int the picture and tell what's on the other side.  Some inspiring model:

Mary Poppins (Two-Disc 45th Anniversary Special Edition)   The Wise Woman and Other Stories (Fantasy Stories of George MacDonald)  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

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