Books with title How to Tell Stories to Children

Telling a story well is more than reading aloud it s a skilled art that changes bored, fidgety listeners into enthralled ones. Here Sara Cone Bryant, beloved children s author from the early 20th century, shows you how to use storytelling to recapture the pleasures of a simpler age. In a few clear, concise lessons, she shows you the key do s and don ts of selecting, adapting, and voicing stories for your kids maximum enjoyment and edification. You'll learn to identify stories that lend themselves to telling aloud and to incorporate into your own stories elements that grab and hold children s attention. And you ll learn how to adapt each tale to the length, language, and content that makes it right for your kids in particular. As a bonus, How to Tell Stories to Children includes some of the author s favorite and most tellable short stories and poems. You ll be able to begin practicing right away the rare and valuable art of storytelling!

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Sara Cone Bryant is the author of How to Tell Stories To Children, Stories to tell the littlest ones. Bryant begins with suggestions on how to be a good storyteller. Bryant discusses the difference between telling a story and reading aloud. She believes telling is superior. She then covers the qualities of a good story and what children consider a good story. The following sections give suggestions of stories by grade levels.

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Sara Cone Bryant (1873-? ), later Mrs. Borst was the American author of various children's books in the early 20th century, including: How to Tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell (1905), Stories to Tell To Children: Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling (1907), Epaminondas and His Auntie (1907), Best Stories to Tell Children (1912), Stories to Tell the Littlest Ones (1916), I am an American: First Lessons in Citizenship (1918), New Stories to Tell to Children (1923), Gordon and His Friends (1924), The Magic Flute (1926) and The Story Reader (1929).