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Science Through Science Through StoriesStories
Hayley McEwing, Children’s Librarian
http://hayleymcewing.pbworks.com/
What Are Stories?
“Stories differ from other narratives (arguments, scientific reports,
articles) in that they orient our feelings and attitudes about the story content.”
Mallan quoted in Haven, Kendall and MaryGay Ducey. Crash Course in Storytelling. (98)
Why Share Stories?
Engage Emotional Intelligence
Why Share Stories?
Engage Emotional Intelligence
“ . . . attuning to our feelings, according to neurological research, helps us find the meaning in data …, Emotions science now tells us, are part of rationality, not opposed to it (42).”
Why Share Stories?
Engage Emotional Intelligence
Intrapersonal or Individual Investigation“… how you see yourself and how others see you.” (Goleman 134)
Real• identity (who I am)• value systems (what I believe)
Ideal• imagination (can lead to change)• self expression (leads to confidence/connection with others)
Why Share Stories?
Engage Emotional Intelligence
Interpersonal or Community Bond (leads to general health and well being)
“Shared stories become shared reference points, drawing people into more meaningful associations.” Birch, Carol L. The Whole Story Handbook. (13)
• Past • Present
Why Share Stories?
Memory / Understanding“Story aids memory because it puts information into a meaningful context, to which other information can be ‘attached.’” from Norfolk, Sherry, Jane Stenson, and Diane Williams. The Storytelling Classroom: Applications across the Curriculum. (xvi)
Why Share Stories?
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Intrapersonal• Interpersonal• Verbal – Linguistic• Musical• Logical – Mathematical• Visual• Kinesthetic
Storytelling
Story Reading
WHO Storyteller + audience Story reader + book + audience
WHAT
Creation and improvisation of story
Book contains the story
WHEN
Naturally Certain times of the day
WHERE
Anywhere Anywhere that has a book
WHYRelationship between storyteller and audience.Encourages personal stories and appreciation for oral history.
Strongest bond usually occurs between story reader and just one or two listeners. Encourages independent reading and appreciation for literature.
HOW Innumerable techniques Limited techniques
Story Sharing is the Middle Way
Kinds of Stories• Circle / Wheel• Cumulative• Cut and Tell / Folding• Draw and Tell / Chalk Talk /
Sand• Folktales• Poetry / Finger Plays• Personal• Retellings• Scary / Ghost• String• Tangram
Pick a story you like!
Story Sharing Techniques
• Audience Participation / Creative Dramatics
• Digital• Magnet / Felt • Movement• Music• Puppets / Props• Tandem / Readers Theater
Storytelling
Story Reading
WHO Storyteller + audience Story reader + book + audience
WHAT
Creation and improvisation of story
Book contains the story
WHEN
Naturally Certain times of the day
WHERE
Anywhere Anywhere that has a book
WHYRelationship between storyteller and audience.Encourages personal stories and appreciation for oral history.
Strongest bond usually occurs between story reader and just one or two listeners. Encourages independent reading and appreciation for literature.
HOW Innumerable techniques Limited techniques
Becoming a Story Sharer
Oral Storytelling• Gesture– Planned and
nonverbal• Sound– Pace, volume,
pause, pitch, end with silence
• Attitude – Comfort level– Associate attitudes
and images to aid memory
• Feedback– Audiences differ– Prepare listening,
but plan for distractions
– Let the story come differently each time
• Words– Choose, practice,
perform, adapt– Know first/last lines
“Storytelling is more than performance. It is event. Audience and teller interact … Storytelling is an audience-shaped art form.” (MacDonald 85)
Images enable us to learn stories more easily; attitudes help us tell them more
effectively.” (Birch 10-11)
Becoming a Story Sharer
Learning a StoryLearning Style• Verbal -
Linguistic• Musical• Logical -
Mathematical• Visual• Intrapersonal• Interpersonal• Kinesthetic
How to Practice • Tell about the story• Focus on sound/breath• Fold paper to outline
story. Use words (5) or images.
• Tell to a friend• Capture self in mirror
or audio/video … or don’t
• Walk in figure 8’s or add gestures
Becoming a Story Sharer
Learning a Story
Becoming a Story Sharer
Performance Mistakes• Learn the “oops-I-goofed-but-I’m-not-going-to-let-you-see-it” smile
• “There’s something I haven’t told you yet …”
• Repeat the last line• Describe the scene further• “What do you think will happen next?”
What is Science in the Early Years?
• Observing and describing (with science vocabulary)
• Sorting / Classifying• Experimenting• Predicting• Drawing conclusions• Communicating ideas
(working in a group)• Content standards
– State (Ohio)– ILILE Book Alignments– My Picturebook Alignments
Science Through StoriesScience Through Stories
Any Questions Any Questions Before Before
Demonstrations?Demonstrations?Hayley McEwing, Children’s
Librarianhttp://hayleymcewing.pbworks.com/
“The Mosquito”Pellowski, Anne. The Story Vine: A Source Book of
Unusual and Easy-to-Tell Stories from Around the World.
String Story
“Lily”Marsh, Valerie. Mystery-Fold: Stories to Tell, Draw, and
Fold.
Draw & Tell / Fold & Tell Story
I’m the Biggest Thing in the OceanBy Kevin Sherry
Pieces by http://kizclub.com/
Puppet / Readers Theater Technique
“Beautiful but Poisonous Butterflies”Marsh, Valerie. Story Puzzles: Tales in the Tangram Tradition.
Tangram Story
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Paired with Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley
Story Reading
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Paired with Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley
Digital Technique
“Regenerate”Swinburne, Stephen R. Ocean Soup: Tide-Pool Poems.
Poetry(Movement Technique)