Once upon an if : the storythinking handbook / by Peter Worley ; illustrations by Tamar Levi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worley, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Leṿi, Tamar, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"If you want to tell more stories in the classroom but lack the confidence to do so... If you need guidance finding stories that are good to get children thinking... If you like using stories in your teaching but want to get more from them than the moral at the end... Once Upon an If is the book for you! In his brand new book, award-winning author Peter Worley provides a comprehensive guide to everything a would-be storyteller needs, including how to bring a story to life, tips on how to memorise a story and improvise descriptions, and techniques for using tone, movement and timing to engage and involve the children in your class. Once Upon an If also comprises a treasury of stories, new and old, written especially to get a young audience thinking actively about the deeper issues that lie behind and within the tales. Guidance notes, lesson plans and activity questions are included with every story and there is a companion website including extra resources for you to use on your interactive whiteboard.Once Upon an If draws on Peter's ten years of experience as a philosophy teacher, trainer and storyteller to help any teacher place stories and storytelling where they should be - back at the heart of teaching."--Publisher

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Also available; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Storytelling animals; What is in this book?; Online resources; Who is this book for?; How to use this book; Part 1 The 'How To' of Storytelling and Storythinking; 1 Thinking about stories; What's the story to storytelling?; Types of story; As if: truth and lies in fiction; Rehearsal for life; Telescope of the imagination; Ethics through narrative; The virtue of stories; Stories and thinking; Received and operational beliefs; 'Thinking with' and 'thinking about'

Stories and thought-experimentsConcepts; Wrong in the right way; 2 Sheherazad's handbook: how to tell stories; The virtues of storytelling; Direct communication; Improvisation and embellishment; Moving 'the walls'; Varying perspectives; The omnipresent narrator; How to tell a story; The Goldilocks Principle; How to begin and end a story; Tenses; Nowness; Persons - first, second or third?; The second person - putting the audience into the story; Point of view and sympathy; Extension activity: the Rashomon effect; Speaking and 'lifting from the page'; Voice and voices; Breathe; Whose voice?

Volume and projectionClarity; Pace and pause; Take stock; Transition; Audience anticipation; Learning stories; Word and phrase-ticks; Story-memorising and memorising stories; Keyword lists; Chunking; Three - the magic story number; Story sequences; Character desire and motivation; Tone and register; Tone and meaning; Invisible punctuation; Matching the register: adapting for different audiences; Extension activity: exercises in style; Eyes, eye-telling and eye contact; Movement, gestures and expression; Less is more; One-spot storytelling; Working in large spaces; Gestures; Contradiction

SubstitutingAnticipation; Physicalisation; Slight physicalisation; Full physicalisation; Audience participation in physicalisation; Using 'story space'; Structure and the withholding of information (or The Odysseus Principle); Minimal prop principle; Visualisation (or how to follow a recipe); How to describe a story; Vocabulary; Developing your instant thesaurus; When and what to describe; The smell of old books - engaging the senses; Picture books and how to tell them; 3 Storythinking; Enquiry; First Thoughts; Talk Time; Questions; Task Questions; Nested Questions

Emergent Questions and EnquiriesFinding the right question; A good Task Question...; Emergent Questions as Task Questions; Socratic Questions; Creating stories around questions; As Clear As the Edge of a Cloud; Extension discussion idea; When to ask a question; Making effective use of the moral; Books with shortcomings and errors; Ask a question from the story; Concrete and abstract; Real-life analogies; Narrative enquiries; Narrative problems; Child-centred questioning; The Thinking Kit; Concept map; Carve it up: drawing distinctions; Break the circle; Examples and counter examples; Examples

Counter Examples: 'But what if...'

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4411-5800-6

1-4411-6526-6

OCLC:

900557469