Once Upon a Time
Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades Prek-6
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2007
288 pages
978-0-313-09568-9 (ISBN)
Description
Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives practical how-to tips on how to tell a story, and write and stage a Reader's Theater script that gets children involved with creative drama. Reader's theater teaches children how to become better listeners, enriches their thinking skills, and encourages their response to literature. Included are ideas on using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants and nonsense rhymes, and a reader's theater script. Also included in this handbook are 400 plus annotated children's books every storyteller should know, 100 great titles for creative drama and reader's theatre and professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama and reader's theater. Grades PreK-6.
Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy.
Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index.
Chapters include:
; Getting Started with Storytelling
; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense
; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow
; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know
; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater
; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater
Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy.
Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index.
Chapters include:
; Getting Started with Storytelling
; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense
; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow
; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know
; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater
; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-09568-9 (9780313095689)
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Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6
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JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information, and Library Science at Pratt Institute, New York City. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Freeman served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and was on the Sibert Committee for 2008. Freeman's Library Unlimited books include Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6, the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, and the yearly The Winners Handbook, reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Getting Started with Storytelling
- How to Learn and Tell a Story: A Refresher Course
- 20 More Storyteller's Performance Tips
- Firsthand Advice from the Storytelling Class at Pratt Institute, New York City, 2007
- Kids Tell Stories
- Types of Folktales
- Using Folk & Fairy Tales: An Ideas List
- Fairy Tale Activity
- Create An Instant Tall Tale
- Looking for Other Versions, Variants, & Parodies
- Looking at Cinderella
- Creating Literature Teaching Guides
- How Well Do You Know Your Fairy Tales?
- Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense
- Look for 398.2
- Rockabye Baby
- It's Raining, It's Pouring
- Three Myopic Rodents
- Twinkle, Twinkle?
- I'm a Little Teapot (Alternate Version)
- Peanut Butter and Jelly
- Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?
- Oh, My Aunt Came Back
- George Washington Bridge
- Baby Jaws
- I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee
- The Swimming Pool Song
- Creeping, Creeping
- In a Dark, Dark Woods
- Rainstorm
- Tongue Twister Song
- The Limerick Song
- McTavish
- Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You Can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow
- We're Going on a Lion Hunt
- The Little Round Red House
- Hoimie the Woim
- Wide Mouth Frog
- T for Tommy
- It's Halloween
- The Viper
- Will You Remember Me?
- The Rainhat
- Prinderella and the Cince
- If You Ask Your Mother to Tell You a Story
- 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know
- Types of Tales: A Booklist
- Beast Tales
- Collections
- Cumulative Tales
- Easy Fiction/Picture Books
- Fables
- Fairy Tales
- Fiction
- Folktales
- Legends
- Myths
- Noodlehead Stories
- Parodies and Updates
- Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
- Pourquoi Tales
- Scary Stories
- Tall Tales
- Trickster Tales
- Bibliography of Professional Books about Storytelling
- Folklore and Storytelling Websites
- Getting Started With Creative Drama and Reader's Theater
- Using Creative Drama
- Using Reader's Theater
- Reader's Theater: 9 Perfect Picture Books
- Reader's Theater: 8 Top Choices for Older Readers
- I Can't Pay the Rent
- Reader's Theater Script: The Barking Mouse
- 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and / or Reader's Theater
- Bibliography of Professional Books About Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater
- Creative Drama and Reader's Theater Websites
- Author / Title Index
