- Description
Description
This handbook describes a revolutionary way of delivering primary education. In a storytelling school all children learn to be storytellers, retelling and improving stories from memory as a way of learning both language and subject content across the curriculum. Children graduate with a repertoire of their own stories to tell. This approach has been shown to raise standards and fire imaginations in schools throughout the UK.
Chris Smith and Adam Guillain show you how to make this happen. The handbook draws on more than ten years experience researching and developing this way of teaching. Piloted, researched and updated, this second edition includes new chapters on non-fiction teaching and cross-curricular integration across the school. It is packed with practical activities, examples, theory, charts, diagrams and pages to photocopy. The Storytelling School offers step-by-step explanations on how to become a storytelling school, including how to:
- Tell stories to your class
- Develop and innovate on a learned story
- Invent new stories
- Link storytelling to improving writing standards
- Apply the method to non-fiction teaching
- Plan across the curriculum using the Storytelling School approach
Author: Chris Smith, Adam Guillain
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Published: 08/25/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 11.60h x 8.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781907359385
ISBN10: 1907359389
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Schools | Levels | Elementary
- Education | Arts in Education
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Arts & Humanities
About the Author
Chris Smith, PhD, is a storyteller, educational trainer and founding Director of Storytelling Schools. For the last ten years Chris has been researching and developing the Storytelling Schools idea in UK schools. For more information on Chris see: www.storysmith.co.uk
