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9781441118141

Once Upon an If The Storythinking Handbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9781441118141

  • ISBN10:

    1441118144

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-01-31
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

If you want to tell more stories in the classroom but lack the confidence to do so...
If you need guidance finding stories that are good to get children thinking...
If you like using stories in your teaching but want to get more from them than the moral at the end...

Once Upon an If is the book for you!

In his brand new book, award-winning author Peter Worley provides a comprehensive guide to everything a would-be storyteller needs, including how to bring a story to life, tips on how to memorise a story and improvise descriptions, and techniques for using tone, movement and timing to engage and involve the children in your class.

Once Upon an If also comprises a treasury of stories, new and old, written especially to get a young audience thinking actively about the deeper issues that lie behind and within the tales. Guidance notes, lesson plans and activity questions are included with every story and there is a companion website including extra resources for you to use on your interactive whiteboard.

Once Upon an If draws on Peter's ten years of experience as a philosophy teacher, trainer and storyteller to help any teacher place stories and storytelling where they should be - back at the heart of teaching.

Author Biography

Peter Worley is founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation (www.philosophy-foundation.org), a charity that specialises in philosophy in primary and secondary schools, based in the UK. Peter has over 15 years' experience in teaching and regularly gives talks and presentations about philosophy in schools. He is a Fellow of the RSA and is currently studying for a PhD at King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Stories, storytelling and storyteaching \ Part One. Storytelling: How to \ How to tell a story \ How to memorise a story \ How to describe a story \ How to build tension \ Part Two. Storyteaching \ Using stories to 'get thinking' \ Storytelling skills for children \ Using stories for the curriculum \ Engaging listeners \ Building a repertoire to rival Homer in the oral tradition \ Story games \ Part Three. Treasury of Stories \ The Six Wise Men \ The Shirt of Happiness \ Honest Sa'id and the Magician \ A Dog's Life \ Da Vinci, Flight and invention \ Brunelleschi and the competition \ Becky's bright idea and superglue \ Series of time-travel conundrums \ Paradoxes in story-form \ Theseus stories \ Hodja stories \ Appendices: Thought experiment examples: Traffic Lights \ Index

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