Super Simple Storytelling : A Can Do Guide

Aside from guides to more than 40 powerful storytelling exercises, you'll find the Golden List of what an audience really needs from storytelling, a proven, step-by-step system for successfully learning and remembering a story, and the Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net to prevent storytelling disasters. More than 15,000 educators from across the country have successfully used this system.

KENDALL HAVEN is a nationally recognized master storyteller and the author of numerous books, including Marvels of Math, Write Right!, and Close Encounters with Deadly Dangers. A former research scientist, he is based in Fulton, California.

List of Figures

ix

Introduction

xi

Part I NATURAL STORYTELLING: 100% Natural You---With No Artificial Additives

1

(14)

The Right Question Gathers the Right Answer

1

(2)

Your Natural Style

3

(6)

The Golden List: The Audience Speaks

9

(3)

The Lemon List

12

(3)

Part II ANATOMY OF A STORY: The Power Behind the Words

15

(20)

What Is a Story?

15

(3)

Fiction Is Folks

18

(3)

The Core of a Character

21

(8)

Layers of the Onion

29

(3)

Evaluating a Story

32

(3)

Part III LEARNING AND TELLING MADE EASY: The Step-by-Step Super Simple System

35

(28)

To Memorize, or Not to Memorize? That Is the Question

35

(3)

What Super Simple Tellers Learn

38

(4)

Meet the Orchestra

42

(2)

Meet the Conductor

44

(2)

The Super Simple System for Learning a Story

46

(11)

The Great-Amazing-Never-Fail Safety Net

57

(6)

Part IV TELLING TIDBITS

63

(12)

Tips for Telling a Story

63

(2)

All Those Who Are Creative, Stand Up

65

(1)

Storytelling and Copyright

65

(2)

Gestures

67

(1)

Props, Costumes, and Other Extras

68

(3)

Audience Participation

71

(1)

The Sore Throat Blues

72

(3)

Part V STORYTELLING IN THE CURRICULUM: Putting the Magic to Work

75

(32)

Teaching with Telling

75

(1)

Teaching Language Arts Through Stories

76

(12)

Stories in Other Curriculum Areas

88

(19)

Part VI TEACHING STUDENTS TO TELL

107

(12)

The Value of Student Storytelling

107

(1)

Teaching Students to Tell the Super Simple Way

108

(8)

Evaluating Student Storytellers

116

(3)

Part VII SUPER SIMPLE STORYTELLING EXERCISES

119

(96)

The Wave Game

119

(2)

What'd You Have forxs Dinner?

121

(2)

Your Favorite Story

123

(2)

What Makes It Real?

125

(2)

What Do You Remember?

127

(2)

What Makes It Fun to Listen To?

129

(2)

What Is a Story?

131

(2)

Is It a Story Yet?

133

(4)

The Big Three

137

(3)

The Memorization Blues

140

(2)

Stand and Watch

142

(2)

Describe the Scene

144

(2)

Say It How?

146

(3)

I Forgot My Homework

149

(2)

You Want Me to Go There?

151

(2)

Hitch Hiker

153

(2)

Mum's the Word

155

(4)

Gesture a Word

159

(2)

Exaggeration

161

(2)

A Better Excuse

163

(2)

Role Play

165

(2)

Interrupter

167

(3)

The Tell-About Game

170

(2)

One-on-One-on-One-on-xsOne

172

(3)

Where's the Camera?

175

(3)

The Scene Game

178

(2)

The Character Game

180

(4)

Be Your Character

184

(2)

The Retell Game

186

(2)

Where Images Come From

188

(2)

She Entered the Room

190

(2)

The 30-Second Story

192

(4)

Interrogate the Character

196

(2)

Judge the Characters

198

(2)

Shadow Voices

200

(2)

The History Game

202

(2)

Sneak Them In

204

(2)

The Circle Story

206

(2)

Pass the Picture

208

(2)

Ruler of the Island

210

(2)

Stage Coach

212

(3)

APPENDIX: The Definition of Storytelling

215

(6)

Why Define Storytelling?

215

(1)

What Is Storytelling?

216

(1)

What Isn't Storytelling?

217

(1)

Roles and Responsibilities in a Storytelling Event

217

(1)

From the Kitchen Table to Carnegie Hall: The Levels of Storytelling

218

(1)

What Is a Story?

219

(2)

REFERENCES

221

(4)

Magazines

221

(1)

Books and Articles About Storytelling

221

(1)

Guides to Stories for the Curriculum

222

(3)

Index

225

(4)

About the Author

229

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