[eal-bilingual] Teaching literacy skills through sharing stories

I think Janet Storey's ideas on story telling are excellent, and would add

Glad you liked the storytelling ideas; they came from me, not Janet, though.
Regards,
Christine

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From: "John Bald" <johnbald at talktalk.net>
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] Teaching literacy skills through sharing 
stories

>I think Janet Storey's ideas on story telling are excellent, and would add 
>one from Patricia Maynard, a storyteller from California. Patricia makes a 
>backboard for the story and laminates it. She then makes figures of the 
>characters, also laminated, and gives them to the children, who place them, 
>with the aid of bluetack, onto the backboard as they tell the story. Three 
>Billy Goats Gruff was the example she used when I heard her. John Bald, 
>independent consultant.
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