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Stories in Action: Interactive Tales and Learning Activities to Promote Early Literacy
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Promote the love of story, familiarize children with a variety of story forms and stimulate curiosity in diverse subjects while building basic literacy skills. In this guide, dozens of enchanting stories from around the world are accompanied by simple learning extensions for children (ages 4 through 8) that build such important literacy skills as print awareness, print motivation, vocabulary, phonological awareness, listening skills, and predicting and sequencing skills. Each of the 14 chapters begins with an interactive, illustrated folktale finger play as the starting point for a range of literacy building activities such as acting out, re-telling, writing, and discussions; and ends with a short list of related books. A great resource for library story hour, the book will also be invaluable to storytellers, teachers, day care centers, and after school programs. Grades PreK-3.
Enchant children with these interactive stories while building a solid foundation for literacy in young learners. This guide is designed to promote in children (ages 4 through 8) the love of story, familiarize them with a variety of story forms, stimulate curiosity in diverse subjects, and build literacy skills. It offers approximately 40 engaging and interactive tales from around the world along with related activities, and it provides educators and storytellers with a wealth of exciting material for literacy and storytelling programs. The book is organized in three sections-Exploring Structures of Stories, Exploring Themes and Characters through Stories, and Exploring Cultures through Stories. Each of the 14 chapters begins with an interactive, illustrated folktale finger play as starting point for a range of literacy building activities such as acting out, re-telling, writing, and discussions. Related stories and picture book references build upon such themes as tall tales, sharing, magical helpers, and the rain forest. Tips for working with younger children, as well as gifted and older children are also included. Grades PreK-3.
- ISBN-101591583381
- ISBN-13978-1591583387
- PublisherLibraries Unlimited
- Publication dateApril 30, 2006
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.51 x 11 inches
- Print length240 pages
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- Publisher : Libraries Unlimited (April 30, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1591583381
- ISBN-13 : 978-1591583387
- Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.51 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,698,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,214 in Library & Information Science (Books)
- #3,465 in Elementary Education
- #3,655 in General Library & Information Sciences
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Bill Gordh is an author, musician, educator and storyteller. He is the Director of Expressive Arts at The Episcopal School in the City of New York, teaches graduate literacy classes at Manhattanville College School of Education, works as a storytelling curricular consultant to the Innova Schools in Peru; designed curriculum for the Jacob Burns Film Center, has led classes and seminars at the General Theological Seminary and Union Seminary. He is also an adjunct at the Graduate Program of Library and Information Studies at Queens College where he leads a story telling course. Bill's books include the 2020 release Making Room for Everyone: More Stories for Building a Children's Chapel (Church Publishing); Stories in Action: Interactive Tales and Learning Activities to Promote Early Literacy (Libraries Unlimited); Building a Children's Chapel: One Story at a Time (Church Publishing), and Want a Ride? (Random House) that has sold over 165,000 copies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at educational conferences throughout the country. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, at the Gerald Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, CO, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum in Houston, TX, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the Clearwater Festival and for three years was a featured storyteller at The White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington, DC during the Clinton presidency.
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As diverse and rich as the stories are, the activities and suggestions that are included for each story are surprisingly enjoyable and actually worth doing. Frequently, post story suggestions in books like this feel like afterthoughts, but the activities in this collection- which include pre-reading and post-reading activities- provide excellent opportunities to expand on the details and themes of each story. Story Skeletons are provided for quick reference for oral storytelling, fingerplay illustrations, suggestions for acting out stories, literacy connections, and more.
After checking this b0ok out from the library repeatedly, I finally broke down and bought it. It is one of my favorite resources and my students, year after year, love all that we do in connection with it.