PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOLS-
“Every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher”- Patti Davis
When you integrate stories into your curriculum, you stimulate intellectual development, provide tools to express emotions and help with problem-solving and conflict resolution. Stories also enrich vocabularies, develop longer attention span, encourage reading, build self-esteem and hone comprehension and debating skills. Stories expand knowledge and understanding of other times, places and cultures. And when students create stories of their own, their writing, reading, listening and communication skills are enhanced. Their storytelling also increases their confidence and their public speaking and presentation skills.
Stories require active listening and make it possible for children and adults to engage personally with the subject in a much more powerful way than the passive absorption of information through watching it on a screen.
The Storylady customizes her stories to suit the ages, stages and abilities of her student audiences and the particular area of the curriculum they are studying at the time of her visit.
Themes include
Multicultural stories,
Stories from the Native Peoples
Creation Legends
Seasonal Stories
French Canadian Tales
Personal History Tales from Around the World
Medieval Tales of Chivalry and Romance
The Canterbury Tales (in modern English)
The Storylady offers storytelling performances and workshops for individual classes and larger groups, for students from JK to Grade 12. In these workshops, the students explore the art of storytelling and develop their speaking and presentation skills.
The Storylady also offers workshops for:
Teachers of pre-school, elementary and high school students
Teachers-in-training at universities and colleges
Workshops explore some of the many ways storytelling can be used in the classroom:
• to enrich cultural, historical and linguistic programs
• to enhance a child's self-confidence
• to promote language development
• to enable children to explore and express feelings
• to develop listening skills
• to improve speaking skills.
The Storylady also offers workshops for teachers after school or as part of Professional Day activities, to help them enhance their skills at weaving storytelling into their curriculum and into their daily interactions with students and staff.
Visits are for half days (two hours of storytelling) or full days (four hours of storytelling) divided up into the segments of time and sizes of groups that work best for each school.
For more information and for easy reference, please download
STORYTELLING For SCHOOLS brochure (PDF).