Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell

The Qualities Children like, and why Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery Examples: _The Three Bears_, _The Three Little Pigs_, _The Old Woman and her Pig_ Suggestions as to the Type of Story especially useful in the several primary Grades Selected List of familiar Fairy Tale...

Chapters

10. Chapter 10

In Chapter II., I have tried to give my conception of the general aim of story-telling in school. From that conception, it is not difficult to deduce certain specific uses. The...

8. Chapter 8

It soon becomes easy to pick out from a collection such stories as can be well told; but at no time is it easy to find a sufficient number of such stories. Stories simple, direc...

6. Chapter 6

Let us first consider together the primary matter of the _aim_ in educational story-telling. On our conception of this must depend very largely all decisions as to choice and me...

9. Chapter 9

Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling. That, after all, is the real test of one's power. That is the real joy, when achieve...

7. Chapter 7

There is one picture which I can always review, in my own collection of past scenes, though many a more highly coloured one has been irrevocably curtained by the folds of forget...

5. Chapter 5

Nursery Rhymes 133 Five Little White Heads 134 Bird Thoughts 134 How we came to have Pink Roses 135 Raggylug 135 The Golden Cobwebs 138 Why the Morning-Glory climbs 142 The Stor...

2. Chapter 2

The Qualities Children like, and why Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery Examples: _The Three Bears_, _The Three Little Pigs_, _The Old Woman and her Pig_ Suggestions as to th...

3. Chapter 3

How to make a long Story short How to fill out a short Story General Changes commonly desirable Examples: _The Nürnberg Stove_, by Ouida; _The King of the Golden River_, by Rusk...

4. Chapter 4

Essential Nature of the Story Kind of Appreciation necessary Suggestions for gaining Mastery of Facts Arrangement of Children The Story-teller's Mood A few Principles of Method,...

1. Chapter 1