The aim of Storyteller is to provide a bank of stories that teachers, families and children might retell and develop to make their own.
Storyteller includes a wealth of activities supporting oral story telling, reading and story writing. Best-selling author Pie Corbett’s teacher’s notes take each of the nine stories from the children’s anthology, ‘Dragonory and Other Stories‘, and provides:
- A brief history of the story
- Activities for reading the story
- Techniques for telling it and re-telling it out loud and
- Activities that encourage children to write their own versions
From being involved in art, drama, discussion, research, dance, music and story map activities, you will be able to make all your children storytellers and enable them to enjoy making stories their own. If a child knows a story really well, when they sit down to write, the task becomes easier as they are not having to concentrate on composition as well as handwriting, punctuation and spelling.
This teacher resource is accompanied by a CD-Rom with a video performance of the nine stories to watch, told by Pie Corbett, Xanthe Gresham, Taffy Thomas and Jane Grell.
