Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom

by Martha Hamilton, Mitch Weiss

The revised edition of this award-winning guidebook on storytelling in the classroom includes over 80% new material. The authors provide compelling rationales for the value of storytelling, links to state standards, detailed storytelling unit tips, uses throughout the curriculum, and bibliographies. Includes a multi-media DVD with demonstrations of storytelling by the authors, teachers and students, plus related materials and resources.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

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Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss are a husband-and-wife team, also known as “Beauty and the Beast Storytellers,” who have traveled the world since 1980 sharing their passion for the art of storytelling. They have co-authored several books and recordings that have won numerous awards including Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (awarded by Bank Street College of Education), Parents’ Choice, National Parenting Publications Awards, and Storytelling World. Their Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom, used in the teaching of storytelling from elementary schools to college courses, won an Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award and was praised by award committee members as "an infectiously enthusiastic book on the methods and merits of teaching storytelling to children . . . imaginative, inspiring, easy to read, and tremendously engaging . . . a terrific book that will be a classic for years to come."

Mitch and Martha’s story collections include world tales that they have retold in a conversational manner so that children can easily understand and retell them. Parents and teachers will find a wealth of information on how to get children excited about reading, telling world tales, and making up their own stories at Mitch and Martha’s Web site: http://www.beautyandthebeaststorytell...

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive, inspirational and highly practical resource for teachers, librarians, storytellers and anyone else working with children. It can be used to plan an entire storytelling club or classroom unit or you can use bits and pieces here and there. There is an extensive bibliography as well as a wonderful DVD of children telling stories. The authors' experience really comes through.

[Elaine Bearden · Rating 5 out of 5]

includes dvd of kids telling stories

[Renee Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource for classroom teachers planning storytelling sessions with children.