Storytelling across the primary curriculum
By: Alastair K Daniel
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: MIlton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415598590; 9780415598606; 9780203155370
Subjects: Primary Education; Storytelling in education; Storytelling; EDUCATION / General; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics; EDUCATION / Elementary
Description: "Starting from the question 'what is a story?' Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum leads the reader through the theory and practise of storytelling as an educational method - a method taught by the author over the last ten years through Primary English teaching programmes. This practical book gives teachers the skills and confidence to use storytelling and the spoken word in new and exciting ways in the classroom. It will also give teachers the confidence to 'put down the book' and trust themselves to tell, rather than read, a story. It provides a wealth of examples of cross-curricular teaching opportunities, including a section on the ways in which the teaching of phonics can be embedded in the 'real' language of story. Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum is ideal for trainee and practicing primary school teachers who want to develop their classroom practice within the field of storytelling. Students on BA Primary, BEd, and PGCE courses, particularly those specialising in English, will also benefit from this book's timeliness with regards to the new Primary National Curriculum for the learning of English language and literacy"--