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About Storytelling, Teaching, and Related Subjects

By Marni Gillard

An Evaluation Form for Students to Fill Out--and Responses

After a residency at a school I sometimes offer students the chance to evaluate their experience. This evaluation serves me in designing future programs. It can be useful for the teacher to keep as well.

Includes actual comments from seventh-graders, too.

On Building Community Through Storytelling

If children are encouraged to honor who they are uniquely, they are more apt to honor each other. One way to share our uniquenesses while at the same time discovering similarities is STORYTELLING.

Includes bibliography.

Oral Language -- A Door into Literacy

I often talk with teachers of young children and of adult learners coming into literacy skills. Here are some thoughts and tips on using ORAL language to help learners step into their competence with the written word.

Storytell Your Literate Life

A great way to start storytelling with your friends or students is to recall the memories of your literate life: stumbles and falls, triumphs and "ta-das."

The Storytelling Learning Log

I encourage teachers to use a process approach to teach storytelling, much as they might to teach writing. When I was a full-time teacher my students make individual learning logs to record their questions, to share their reactions to class storytelling activities, and to name their learnings throughout the storytelling unit.

Tips for Learning to Tell a Tale

Seven great tips explained, such as:

Fall in love with a story...Trust the story... Tell the story in YOUR words...Last but not least, have fun. Enjoy the ride!

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Marni Gillard, storyteller
833 Parkside Ave.,
Schenectady , NY 12309
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You can email Marni at marnigil@aol.com

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