Early Literacy: Utilizing Picture Books and Storytelling to Engage the Whole ChildDR. MARJANEH GILPATRICK & JENA AKARD

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� LT504 - Early Literacy: Utilize Picture Books and Storytelling to Engage the Whole Child

� Immerse young readers in picture books and tap into the whole child. Learn instructional strategies to engage them with storytelling to increase their early literacy skills and to meet standards.

About Us

� Marjaneh Gilpatrick, Ed. D. Executive Director of Educational Outreach, College of Education, Grand Canyon University

� Jena Akard, M.Ed., NBCT Assistant Professor, College of Education, Grand Canyon University

Objectives

� Tell Fables that illustrate methods for enhancing student language development and auditory processing skills;

� Understand that a story’s structure can aid in teaching young students story grammar (elements of narrative stories), and also promote their imagination development;

� Practice a strategy to teach students to write a story in any of the genres included in the narrative text type.

Storytelling…the research

� In Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World (1997), Leeming avows our culture’s fascination with narrative stories is paralleled by each and every culture. Not only did stories bring order into their worlds, and enhanced the teller’s oral language skills; but also, sharpened the listeners’ imaginations and comprehension skills. Dawkins and O’Neill (2011), suggest that when students have the opportunity to listen to stories, analyze their grammatical and literary elements, they are more likely to write elaborate and meaningful narrative texts. Furthermore, Ahlquist touts the benefits of storytelling for second language learners in as much that the elements of the story focus the listener’s imagination to the meaning of the story which in turn helps their literacy skills (2013). MacDonald, Whitman, and Whitman (2013), assert “storytelling links with Academic Standards. Speaking, listening, and writing standards link naturally to storytelling. For example: Compare and contrast two or more version of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures…; and, Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics…and patterns of events …in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.” (Knowledge Quest Beyond the Core).

Storytelling…the research (con’t)

� According to experts, storytelling has the power to enhance not only early literacy skills, but English language learners’ vocabulary and knowledge base of narrative stories. Specifically, teachers can locate applicable children’s picture books, fables and legends from their students’ cultures and provide storytelling experiences that are aligned to academic standards. In this session, the participants will learn the ABCs of storytelling:

� Access: Where to access resources for storytelling and bringing literacy best practices alive for young learners and ELLs.

� Bold: How to be creative and daring telling a story.

� Curious: How to elicit curiosity in their audience’s imagination.

Taking notes

� Directions on making an 8 page book

�As you listen and engage with the books, take notes in your “book”

Tools for Storytelling

� Plot: � Sequence of events in a story

� Characters: � People, animals or other entities in the story

� Non-verbal Communication:� Body language, facial expressions,

and gesturesForest, H. (2000). Storytelling in the Classroom. Retrieved on October 31, 2008

from http://www.storyarts.org/classroom/retelling/getstarted.html

A man walked down the street.

BRAIN INGNITOR….

Paint the vision in the listener’s mind…

� How old was the man?

� What was the condition of the road?

� How was he walking?

� What time of the day was it?

� What did he look like?

� What was the man wearing?

� Where was he going?

� What time of year?

Storytelling Structure

Storytelling Structure

Principals’ Leadership SymposiumPresentation by Liz WarrenSMCC Storytelling Institute November 2, 2016

Sharing Wordless Picture Book.

�Partner up (peanut butter and jelly)

�Select a book

�Review your book

�5 minutes

Peanut Butter Partner

� Tell the story about your book

� Don’t share the pictures

� Jelly draw a picture(s)

Fables and personal stories

� Non-Fiction Section 398.2

Fables� Read and learn the plot� Read again – character� Practice with a partner

Personal Stories: First time:� Getting behind the wheel to learn how to drive� On a date/kissed� You tied a new food

Writing connection

� Language Learning Experience

References & Resources

References & Resources

Questions

� What questions do you have for us?

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The Dog and the Hare

A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at

one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another

fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog. The Hare said to him, "I wish

you would act sincerely by me, and show yourself in your true colors. If you are a

friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?'

No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or

distrust him.

The Crow and the Pitcher

A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it

with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so

little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think

of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many

stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the

pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The Dove and the Ant

An Ant, going to a river to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A

Dove pitied her condition, and threw into the river a small bough, by means of

which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant afterward, seeing a man with a fowling-

piece aiming at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his

aim, and so saved the

Dove's life.

"Little friends may prove great friends."

The Eagle and the Fox

AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near

each other. The Eagle built her nest in the branches of a tall tree, while the Fox

crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after they had

agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones,

swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and

feasted herself and her brood. The Fox on her return, discovered what had

happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to

avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle. While

hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing a goat, she

suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it, along with a burning cinder, to

her nest. A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as

yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at

the bottom of the tree. There, in the sight of the Eagle, the Fox gobbled them up.

The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow

AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having found a

convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk; and a Wild Sow, with her

young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot. The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy

this chance-made colony.

To carry out her design, she climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said,

"Destruction is preparing for you, and for me too, unfortunately. The Wild Sow,

whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on

its fall seize our families as food for her young." Having thus frightened the Eagle

out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, "Your children

are in great danger; for as soon as you go

out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your

little pigs." Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to

hide herself in the hollow of the tree. When night came she went forth with silent

foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning to be afraid, she

kept a lookout all through the day. Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow,

sat still on the branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out

from her cave. And thus they both, along with their families, perished from

hunger, and afforded ample provision for the Cat

and her kittens.

Hercules and the Waggoner

A Waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. At last he

came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the

more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels. So the Waggoner threw down

his whip, and knelt down and prayed to Hercules the Strong. "O Hercules, help me

in this my hour of distress," quoth he. But Hercules appeared to him, and said:

"Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel."

The gods help them that help themselves.

The Hunter and the Woodman

A HUNTER, not very bold, was searching for the tracks of a Lion. He asked a

man felling oaks in the forest if he had seen any marks of his footsteps or knew

where his lair was. "I will," said the man, "at once show you the Lion himself."

The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear, replied, "No,

thank you. I did not ask that; it is his track only I am in search of, not the Lion

himself."

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

The Lion and the Mouse

Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon

him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened

his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me

this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a

turn some of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being

able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion

was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King,

tied him to a tree while they went in search of a waggon to carry him on. Just then

the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion

was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the

Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse.

Little friends may prove great friends.

The Lion in Love

A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,

unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to

rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as

the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his

teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion

cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned

to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club,

and drove him away into the forest.

The Miser

A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a

hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his

workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his

movements. He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging

down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found

the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A

neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do

not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the

gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold

was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the

shepherd and his dogs. But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been

flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among

the sheep. The Lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing,

began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little

apart, he soon made a meal off her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving

the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.

Appearances are deceptive.