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Anyone who wants to start a youth storytelling group or troupe will find a wealth of practical information and inspiration in this guide. Written by two veteran storytellers and storytelling group leaders, this book takes you step by step through the entire process of planning, starting, managing, and growing your storytelling group-even up through taking the show on the road. Complete instructions for teaching storytelling skills and performing are accompanied by dozens of reproducible activities and practical tips-from how to recruit members and how to adapt stories for telling to what to wear when performing, and fundraising ideas. Storytelling is a powerful teaching and learning tool. It increases literacy and language skills, builds creativity and imagination, instills confidence, encourages cooperation and collaboration-and its great fun for everyone! Share the gift of storytelling with young people and watch them grow. Grades 4-12.

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Raising Voices

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Raising Voices

Creating Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes

Judy Sima
Kevin Cordi

2003
Libraries Unlimited

Teacher Ideas Press

A Member of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Westport, Connecticut London

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sima, Judy
Raising voices: creating youth storytelling groups and troupes/Judy Sima, Kevin
Cordi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56308-919-X
1. Storytelling. 2. Childrens stories. I. Cordi, Kevin.
GR72.3.S55 2003
808.5'43dc21 2003047631

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright 2003 by Libraries Unlimited

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by an process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003047631

ISBN: 1-56308-919-X

First published in 2003

Libraries Unlimited, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

A Member of the Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
www.lu.com

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

List of Reproducibles

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Storytellers Pledge

xiii

Introduction

xv

Section I:Getting Started

Chapter 1:

Initial Preparations

Defining Your Goals and Objectives

Finding a Time and Place to Meet

Recruiting Students

Organizing the Space

Gathering Supplies

Chapter 2:

Let the Meetings Begin

Creating a Safe Environment

Establishing Rules

Structuring the Meetings

Choosing a Name for Your Group

Establishing a Schedule

First Meeting Agenda

Meeting Formats

Section II:Growing Your Storytelling Group

Chapter 3a:

Teaching Storytelling Skills: Getting Ready to Tell Stories

Storytellers Bingo

Storytelling Scavenger Hunt

Hello Bingo

Meet My Friend

I Am, I Can, I Like, I Hope

Academy Awards Acceptance Speech

Me Story Bags

Partner Storytelling

Hot Seat

Toy Stories

Magic Key

Chain or Circle Storytelling

Chapter 3b:

Teaching Storytelling Skills: The Story Learning Process

Step 1. Choose It: Choosing a Story to Tell

Step 2. Read It: Reading the Story Aloud

Step 3. Picture It: Drawing, Outlining, or Mapping the Story

Step 4. Imagine It: Visualizing or Imagining the Story

Step 5. Practice It: Rehearsing the Story

Step 6. Tell It: Telling the Story to an Audience

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Chapter 4a:

Strengthening Storytelling Skills: Advanced Activities

Rotation Station

Virginia Reel

Exaggeration Station

All Hands Down

Emotions Circle

Pass the Mask

Excuses, Excuses

Tall Tale

Good News-Bad News

To Get or Mother May I

Drawing from a Description

Chapter 4b:

Strengthening Storytelling Skills: Activities for Adapting and Creating Stories

Crafting Adapted and Original Stories for Performance

Bare Bones Fables

Five Times Three: Audience Participation

Telling Your Own Story

Personal Encounter with an Animal

Point of View

Crazy Mixed-Up Fairy Tales

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Chapter 5:

Coaching: Guiding the Youth Storyteller

What Is Coaching?

What Coaching Is Not

The Rules of Coaching

The Atmosphere of Coaching

Three Styles of Coaching

Developing Your Coaching Skills

Chapter 6:

Nurturing the Group

Keeping Students Motivated

Levels of Achievement

Finding Role Models and Coaches

Dealing with Problem Situations

Section III:Performing and Beyond

Chapter 7:

Telling the Tales

Are We Ready?

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