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Handouts for Storytellers and Their Teachers

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Storytelling Handouts

Document Format
Join the Club!
Storyteller Application: Join Storytelling Club PDF
Guidelines
Is This the One: Selecting a Story PDF
Guidelines for Student Storytellers
(Thank you to Darlene Neumann, Professional Storyteller & Shorewood School LMC Director)

        Preparing the Story to Tell
        Telling Your Story
PDF

PDF
PDF
Telling Stories
After a Story's Been Told: Story Record PDF
Applause Award [html]
(Thank you to Karen Chace, Professional Storyteller)
PDF
Exercise for Expression
(Hamilton and Weiss, Stories in My Pocket or Children Tell Stories)
PDF
Exercise for Gesturing PDF
SMILE Storytelling Rubric PDF
Story Coaching Sign-up PDF
Storyteller Critiquing Guide PDF
Storyteller Feedback PDF
Storyteller Self-Evaluation PDF
Student Storytellers Prompts [html]
(Thank you to Judy Sima and Kevin Cordi, Raising Voices: Creating Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes)
PDF
Let Parents Know What Their Student Tellers are Learning
Parent Letter PDF
Resources for Teachers

10 Weeks of Student Storytelling and Its Curricular Connection to the Illinois Learning Standards, Bloom’s Taxonomy, & the Writing Process

Grades 1-8

PDF

Grades 6-12

PDF

Illinois State Board of Education Classroom Assessments & Performance Descriptors for Language Arts and Drama Learning Standards Met by Student Storytelling in the Schools

Grades 1-5

PDF

Grades 6-12

PDF
How Children Benefit from Hearing & Telling Stories [html]
(Thank you to Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, Children Tell Stories: A Teaching Guide)
PDF
Mentor Guidelines PDF

The above are a compilation of ideas and forms used by a variety of professional storytelling mentors. Some have been adapted to suit the needs and talents of the students at the Robert Clow Elementary School. The Resource pages direct you to the materials we consulted for our program. Being of a practical nature, we make no claim to having reinvented the wheel!

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