We will wrap our our traditional literature this week by looking at a storytelling unit for third graders (film) and then reflecting on storytelling in education. Watch Children tell Stories (20 min video). Take notes because you are using information and quotes from the film to use in your synthesis project.
THE VIDEO IS: Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom (Multimedia DVD included with the book) Paperback – January 1, 2005 by Martha Hamilton Here are some guiding questions for the film: 1. How does storytelling help English Language Learners? 2. How do you help children who are scared to tell stories?
3. Why is it important for a teacher to learn to tell a story to her class?
4. How do the storytellers create “expanding audiences?”
5. Why do you think storytelling and the arts are often the first to be defunded. Should they be?
6. What are some skills the children learn through this storytelling unit? TO DO: 1. You will gather the information from the film and find 1 more source on the internet. 2. SYNTHESIZE your information on Storytelling in Education that you have gathered in a piktochart, adobe spark, graphic organizer, or other visual. 3. THEN ANSWER you watch the film and take notes? you find another web source on storytelling in education? you select a modality for organizing the information? Infographic/webpage/graphic organizer.
