English In Action Storyteller Teacher S Manual

Step-by-step training, an exciting format, reproducible handouts, and practical steps for initiating an English ministry in your church or community.

This intermediate-level curriculum uses Bible and contemporary stories to help students build their English speaking, reading, and writing skills. By placing language learning in a relevant context, Storyteller encourages practical, meaningful, and creative communication.

Handbook for teachers using Storytelling Schools methodology to teach literacy in schools. This dynamic approach to developing literacy helps children improve their writing, listening, empathy, speaking, reading, comprehension, performance, memory, imagination and confidence. It shows teachers the stages for learning how to tell stories, how to use stories in their teaching and how to teach children to tell their own stories with easy to use methods. In a storytelling school, all children learn how to be storytellers as a way to improve literacy and learning subjects across the curriculum.

The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling is a unique book that explores stories from an educational, community, social, health, therapeutic and therapy perspectives, acknowledging a range of diverse social and cultural views in which stories are used and written by esteemed storytellers, artists, therapists and academics from around the globe. The book is divided into five main sections that examine different approaches and contexts for therapeutic stories and storytelling. The collected authors explore storytelling as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in education, social and community settings, and in health and therapeutic contexts. The final section offers an International Story Anthology written by co-editor Sharon Jacksties and a final story by Katja Gorečan. This book is of enormous importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals, as well as academics, storytellers, teachers, people working in special educational needs, and all those with an interest in storytelling and its applied value.

`Too afraid to have a go at oral storytelling in the classroom? This is the book for you!...The book guides you through choosing a tale you really enjoy, knowing your audience and not being afraid to adapt a tried and tested fairy tale′ - Literacy Time `This book is ideal for all adults working with children (mainly at primary level) and would be especially useful for those less confident or who are new to their role. It provides a great opportunity to practise an inspirational and creative approach to teaching and learning...I really enjoyed this book and took away much to think about′ - Ruth Underwood, primary inclusion co-ordinator `The ability level for this book is aimed at teachers teaching ages 5-11 and I′d say the author has it spot on. As an educational resource I rate this book highly and think it is a valuable read for all primary teachers. It helps you to think of how you can use storytelling as a tool in ways you won′t have thought of before. It′s a very enjoyable read and if you′re pushed for time you can just dip into the parts you want. I definitely recommend it′ - TES website Drawing on her experience as a professional storyteller, in this book, Alison Davies show teachers how to develop storytelling skills as part of a new engaging approach to creative teaching and learning. Packed with hands on, practical advice, the book also includes a range of stories for teachers to use in different class situations. The stories are in an easy to learn format, with pointers and tips on how to tell them and how to involve the class. Topics covered include: - bullying - disabilities - computer games - friendship - greed There are also lots of lesson plans with ideas for starters, mains and plenary sessions, and tips on developing creativity and presentation of ideas in an engaging manner to suit any topic or situation across the curriculum. As well as giving the reader the opportunity to practice their new skills and giving them the confidence to develop their own stories, the activities help them to develop these skills in young people. The book is ideal for teachers, teaching assistants, youth club workers-anyone in a primary level setting who has the opportunity to develop storytelling as a creative and inspirational experience. Alison Davies has also edited Shrouded in Darkness: Tales of Terror to raise money for DebRA, a national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). The book features contributions from from Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Christopher Fowler, Simon Clark and Graham Masterton. All royalties from this book will go to the charity to help them continue their good work.

More and more teachers are recognising the value of using real storybooks as a motivating, challenging and fun resource for English language teaching. This is an expanded and updated edition of The Storytelling Handbook and is an invaluable guide to using real storybooks in the primary classroom.

This is a collection of notes on how to use authentic English reading-material in a classroom context. The notes refer to 15 Puffin titles and include flashcards and a cassette. The emphasis of the book is on motivating children and guidelines are therefore offered teachers for organizing games, quizzes and even dressing up and acting out scenes from the books. The accompanying cassette includes readings of some of the stories along with rhymes and phonetic practice.

Предлагаемое методическое пособие предназначено для учителей, преподающих английский язык в начальной школе. Пособие может быть использовано в процессе подготовки учителей английского языка начальных классов в педагогических колледжах и университетах. В книге изложены основные теоретические положения методики преподавания английского языка на начальном этапе, проиллюстрированы примерами из учебников, учебных пособий и практики преподавания по ним учителей России. Пособие также предлагает дополнительные задания для осмысления собственной педагогической деятельности, обсуждения с коллегами и дальнейшего исследования, поэтому может быть полезно в работе институтов повышения квалификации работников образования (ИПКРО) и методическим объединениям учителей английского языка.