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Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Advanced: Telling Stories

For Students 7th - 10th
In this telling stories worksheet, students read the beginnings of 5 stories and respond to 5 short answer questions. Students also work with a partner to continue each of the stories.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Film Genres for Telling Hero Stories: Experimental Shorts

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students design and create an experimental film to express a theme or concept regarding heroism. They establish shots of locations, write dialogue, create montages and subjective footage.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tell a Tale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a class story using picture cards. Each student picks a card, tapes it to the board, and retells the story in sequential order using the words then and next.
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Article
PBS

Pbs: Quilts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you've never thought of quilts as art, then you need to visit this site. These pages show quilts from across American over the last 100 years. Includes interviews with many contemporary quilters. You'll also find reports from teachers...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this interactive lesson plan, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By...
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Website
Other

San State Francisco University: Newsworx (1001 Words)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View the media-rich work of teams of student journalists assigned to produce high-interest feature stories using pictures, audio, and words. Learn how to tell a story well by thinking critically about the different choices made by each...
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Article
Other

The Puppetry Home Page: Intro. To the History of Bunraku

For Students 9th - 10th
The Puppetry Home Page tracks the history of Bunraku. Bunraku literally means puppets and storytelling. Learn about its predecessors and current day Bunraku.
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Activity
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Invent a Board Game [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in games? Have you innovative ideas? Use your imagination to create a story-based board game with inspiration from two early computer game designers.
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Handout
Other

Articles About Storytelling

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site contains links to five articles about storytelling by Heather Forest. Articles include the following: "Crafting Personal Vision in Telling Folktales," "The Voice as an Instrument," "Copyright and Fair Use of Published...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Story Arts Online: Storytelling Lesson Plans & Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"This collection of story-related activities, projects and games-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with learners, teachers, and librarians-can be used by educators in a school setting to...