Storytelling

Guides students through a range of stories from around the world, offering storytelling techniques that will accumulate through the term to provide them with the tools and confidence to use storytelling as part of their work. A major focus of the storytelling work will be on building an interactive experience for the children. Developing literacy-building activities from the stories will also be covered. Working with various story sources from folktale collections to picture books will be part of the in-class work. Exploring folktale structures as a way to understand how stories are built and provide students with structural templates to create their own stories will also be examined. A variety of readings and discussions will tie all these elements together.