Using, story in the classroom pt 2

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This is a continuation of notes I took while attending a very good workshop at the Timpanogos storytelling conference from an educator by the name of Sherry Norfolk. In the previous week I shared ideas that Sherry offered of how teachers can use storytelling more effectively in their classrooms. These are more notes to that presentation.

–          Modeling: book tells it, read it, write it.

–          Grandma spider is a Cherokee folktale: I’m not as little as I would like to be in never heard of the tail sign on a present a bit briefly here. There was a time that the world was dark and big bear called all the animals together for meeting. Big bear, told the animals that he saw a crack the Skye and in the crack in the sky. He saw something bright white. He asked the members of the animals who will go get the light. The Raven volunteered and says I’m strongly from flyover and get the light. So the ravens flew over to where the end of the world and got the light, but realized he couldn’t carry it with his weighing because he had to fly three sides to go ahead and put the light on top of his head that he did fly. But as he was flying, he smelled something burning and realizes that was on fire. He had to stop without and found that his head is now bald.

–          The next animal that volunteered was the badger, he said I can go ahead and get the fire. So he went to the end of the world to get the fire, and he says ILB smart. I won’t have the fire on my head. I’ll put it on the Mitel. But then he smelled something burning in the light burned his tail and as high badges no longer have from the tales

–          finally with the old grandma spider. She sessions go get the light. The best said that she was old and had a bad memory, and they doubted if she could do the job. She insisted. Let her go. Grandma spider began to create a web from when she was to the end of the world to bring her back. When she recently end of the world. She made a bowl out of wet mud. She puts the light in the bowl, and as she drags it back to the other animals. The bulk looks into a hardshell. When she returns home. The animals. So the light up into the sky giving the world like. And also created is the first bowl.

–          here’s a efficient telling of the story:  http://tellingtales.wikispaces.com/Cherokee+Legends+%26+Folktales

–          one way to help children understand the concepts of the story is that you tell the story is simply act out the story without any words and have the children imitate your actions. This is useful because some children have different learning styles and acting out the story silently helps broaden responding to different learning style.

–          You can also review the story by going step-by-step the story and as such questions as,

1. why did the bear called the meeting?

2. What did the Raven do

3. what happened

4. what did badger do

5. what happened

6. what did grandma spider do

7. what happened

8. what they do with the light

–          this displays an eight step structure that other stories can fit into an aside, no for writers. It is also the three try fail cycles. There are other stories that share a similar concept to other countries that can be plugged in to the grandma spider story

Sherry’s website: http://www.sherrynorfolk.com/

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