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Story telling treasure hunt/ detective games

21 de novembro de 2014

Story telling can be used as a means to set the “stage”. The story you tell can be the reason students will conduct the treasure hunt or solve the clues as detectives. Story telling provides the justification for searching for the lost treasure or….. For solving the crime. The clues could be written out in...Read More

Classroom Experiences

detective games, storytelling, treasure hunt

Magic

21 de outubro de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

The other day I was visiting a writer friend of mine and she said she wanted to write a children’s story. A story in which the reader can extrapolate the meaning and come out better for it. My very eloquent friend started to tell me her story ideas based on interviews she had conducted in...Read More

Language Acquisition

challenges, characters, stories

Images and real materials

21 de setembro de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

We are constantly becoming more and more visual. Our social media communication includes sharing images. We share pictures, we comment on pictures, we like pictures. It’s all very simple and immediate. Using picture books with small children is a way in which they can use simple language communication skills. They can simply like, share and...Read More

Classroom Experiences

communication, images, visual

Storytelling vs. Reading to oneself

21 de agosto de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

Many times when hearing story, students will not understand every word being spoken. Many times students can deduce the meaning from the context of the story. They might ask about a word, or a phrase in order to understand the situation presented in the storyline. Sometimes it’s necessary to adapt language in order to be...Read More

Classroom Experiences

language, storyline, storytelling

Storytelling, Memoirs, Diaries, biographies and Autobiographies

22 de julho de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

Something needs to happen to someone to make a story. How we tell that event is what makes or breaks the story. I love stories that begin ” I remember “. That catch phrase for me, transports me to wherever the story teller is willing to take me. ” I remember” validates a happenstance. ”...Read More

Classroom Experiences

Diaries, story teller

Storytelling by Use of Images

21 de maio de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

When telling a story, common practice usually entails reading from the book and showing your audience the picture. This makes sense in that the picture informs the listener what, and who the story is about. Another visual supplement may be flash cards and/or story cards. Today, more than ever, we record what we’ve experienced by...Read More

Classroom Experiences

characters, images, pictures, storytelling

Props in Storytelling

22 de abril de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

Props can be anything used to aid in the telling of a story. The audience needs to be made to believe that the object is representative to some aspect of the story. Tell the story, because the audience wants to believe. In the classroom, props can be used throughout the story or just as a...Read More

Language Acquisition

props, storytelling

The Power of Story Telling

21 de março de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

While waiting for a jazz class that wasn’t going to happen, my ten year old daughter and her friend start knocking on the door. “They bang and cry, let me in! I am the big bad wolf!” It must be over half her lifetime since she has heard the story The Three Little Pigs and...Read More

Language Acquisition

narrative, story telling

Storytelling and Language Acquisition

21 de fevereiro de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

There is a lot of theory that can go into storytelling. Lots of ideas and lots of games and exercises for the classroom. I hope to touch upon those topics and others in this blog. I hope to be challenged, to share ideas, and to learn from the experience of others. Stories are the way...Read More

Language Acquisition

language acquisition; vocabulary, storytelling