1.06: Storytelling With Kids at Your Library

Storyteller Dianne de Las Casas discusses ways of inspiring kids to tell their own stories, including story theater, board games, and fractured fairy tales. Storyteller Bill Harley discusses prompts that inspire children to tell their own tales, and both touch on the importance of this type of work with kids. Plus songs from Monty Harper and Bill Harley.



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TPR 1.06: "Storytelling With Kids at Your Library"

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Guests

1. Dianne de Las Casas - homepage
• Dianne's Blog
• Dianne's Story Collection
• Story Theater Scripts
• Storytelling Games
• Literacy Activities
2. Bill Harley - homepage
• Bill's Song and PSA on the ALSC website
• Bill Harley on Amazon.com

Dianne Recommends Many Great Books!

Dianne recommended a long list of reference books, including some of her own, to help you get your kids started telling stories! You'll find them all listed in our Amazon.com store.

Bill Harley Recommends These Songs and Stories

Bill recommended these songs and stories of his (at my request) as prompts for encouraging kids to tell their own similar stories.

"You're in Trouble," available on the CD You're in Trouble - (lyric .pdf)
"Is Not Is Too," available on the CD Play It Again: Favorite Songs (& One New Story)
"Mrs. Lunchroom (story)," available on the CD Weezie and the Moonpies
"You're Not the Boss of Me (story)," available on the CD Play It Again: Favorite Songs (& One New Story)

Featured Songs

"Frog Song" by Monty Harper, available on The Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD
"At Your Library" by Bill Harley, available for free download from ALSC

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1.05: Theater Games at Your Library

Rozz Grigsby, Education Director for Oklahoma Children's Theater, speaks about how to do theater games and story dramas with kids. Learn how to play Red Light, Freeze Dance, Space Walk, Screen Test, Magic Toybox, Whatchya Doin?, Echo, Freeze, Zip Zap Zop, Sound Orchestra, and Questions. Plus, a song from Funky Mama.

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TPR 1.05: "Theater Games at Your Library"
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Guests

1. Rozz Grigsby
2. The Uncut Rozz Grigsby Interview (.mp3)
3. Oklahoma Children's Theater
4. Funky Mama - "Freeze Dance"
   

Rozz Recommends These Reference Books for Theater Games

1. Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook, by Viola Spolin
2. Drama of Color: Improvisation with Multiethnic Folklore, by Johnny Saldana
3. Structuring Drama Work, by Jonothan Neelands and Tony Goode
4. Acting Games: Improvisations and Exercises : A Textbook of Theatre Games and Improvisations, by Marsh Gary Cassady

Rozz Recommends these Authors / Books to Use for Story Drama

For young children:

1. Eric Carle
2. Antoinette Portis - Not a Box, Not a Stick
3. Dr. Seuss - The Lorax (Classic Seuss), Horton Hears a Who! (Classic Seuss), The Sneetches and Other Stories (Classic Seuss)
4. P.D. Eastman - Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books), Go, Dog. Go! (Beginner Books)
5. Julia Durango - Cha-Cha Chimps
6. Marcus Pfister - The Rainbow Fish
7. Leo Lionni - Frederick

For older children:

1. Neil Gaiman - The Wolves in the Walls
2. Daniel Manus Pinkwater - The Big Orange Splot
3. Allan Ahlberg - Previously
4. Chris Van Allsburg - The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
5. Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Also:

1. Anything with animals that can be acted out
2. Folk tales, fairy tales, standard stories
3. Shel Silverstein poetry - Falling Up, A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Books with no text, just illustrations
5. Anything that's your favorite!

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