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Storytelling: Learning and Sharing
In this 45 minute videotape, Storyteller and teacher Sandy Jenkins guides the viewer into the fascinating world of children's storytelling. A classroom teacher for more than 20 years and storyteller for half that time, Sandy shows how to tell wonderful stories which teach, enrich, and entertain.
Storytelling: Learning and Sharing
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Become an accomplished storyteller
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FUN, LEARNING & SHARING!
Whether you've never told a story or you've told many stories, you're certain to profit by the valuable information on:
- How to find stories
- How to learn stories
- How to tell stories effectively
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In addition to giving guided instruction, Sandy demonstrates various aspects of storytelling with the tales she tells.
The power and the wonder of telling stories can belong to anyone!
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Education have found that:
"The excitement of storytelling can make reading and learning fun and can instill in children a sense of wonder about life and learning" --WHAT WORKS, 2d ed.
"Even students with low motivation and weak academic skills are more likely to listen, read, write, and work hard in the context of storytelling." --WHAT WORKS, 2d ed.
Recommendations
Storytelling: Learning and Sharing is recommended by VIDEO LIBRARIAN and BOOKLIST and was judged by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL to have "great material about the values of storytelling for children as well as guidelines for selecting, learning, and sharing stories." In addition, VIDEO RATING GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES wrote that it is "valuable for libraries, elementary teachers, and college students majoring in elementary education."
In addition, you'll learn that:
- Telling stories is fun.
- Telling stories helps to bring families closer together.
- Children delight in re-telling the stories they've heard.
- Children love to hear family stories--events and people from their parents' past.
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Sandy Jenkins, Storyteller & Educator
Sandy Jenkins, a master teacher with an advanced degree in storytelling from East Tennessee State University, has used
storytelling throughout the elementary curriculum during her more than two decades of teaching.
She also has taught storytelling--and how to use it in the curriculum--to elementary teachers in an extended learning
program at the University of California, San Diego.
As a "Distinguished Teacher in Residence" at California State University, San Marcos, she taught foundations of instruction to undergraduates, social studies to graduate students studying for a teaching credential, and she supervised teachers in training. In all these activities she incorporated the value of storytelling as a teaching tool.
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