How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Ebook

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

THE PURPOSE OF STORY-TELLING IN SCHOOL

Its immediate Advantages to the Teacher Its ultimate Gifts to the Child

CHAPTER II

SELECTION OF STORIES TO TELL

• Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery
• The Qualities Children like, and why
• Examples: The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs,
• Suggestions as to the Type of Story
• The Old Woman and her Pig
• especially useful in the several primary Grades
• Selected List of familiar Fairy Tales

CHAPTER III

ADAPTATION OF STORIES FOR TELLING

• How to fill out a short Story
• How to make a long Story short
• General Changes commonly desirable
• The King of the Golden River, by Ruskin;
• Examples: The Nürnberg Stove, by Ouida;
• The Red Thread of Courage,
• Analysis of Method
• The Elf and the Dormouse

CHAPTER IV

HOW TO TELL THE STORY

• Kind of Appreciation necessary
• Essential Nature of the Story
• Suggestions for gaining Mastery of Facts
• The Story-teller's Mood
• Arrangement of Children
• A few Principles of Method, Manner and Voice, from the psychological Point of View

CHAPTER V

SOME SPECIFIC SCHOOLROOM USES

• Illustrations cut by the Children as Seat-work
• Exercise in Retelling
• Dramatic Games
• Influence of Games on Reading Classes

STORIES SELECTED AND ADAPTED FOR TELLING

ESPECIALLY FOR KINDERGARTEN AND CLASS I.

• Five Little White Heads
• Nursery Rhymes
• Bird Thoughts
• Raggylug
• How we came to have Pink Roses
• The Golden Cobwebs
• The Story of Little Tavwots
• Why the Morning-Glory climbs
• The Pig Brother
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town
• The Cake
• Why the Evergreen Trees keep their Leaves in Winter
• The Lion and the Gnat
• The Star Dollars

ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES II. AND III.

• The Rat Princess
• The Cat and the Parrot
• The Frog and the Ox
• The Burning of the Ricefields
• The Fire-Bringer
• The Story of Wylie
• The Sailor Man
• Little Daylight
• The Story of Jairus's Daughter

ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES IV. AND V.

• Tarpeia
• Arthur and the Sword
• The Buckwheat
• Why the Sea is salt
• The Judgment of Midas
• Billy Beg and his Bull
• The Last Lesson
• The Little Hero of Haarlem
• The Story of Christmas

A short List of Ebooks in which the Story-teller will find Stories not too far from the Form in which they are needed