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Storytelling Using folk tales, personal stories and improvised stories created with the students, this workshop supports curriculum content standards for language arts literacy. Students are taught to listen, respond, and extend the concepts of narrative at age appropriate levels from such simple lessons as creating a beginning, middle and end, to more complicated ideas of metaphor and character. A story’s plot is a problem to be solved. The children are given stories as resources for developing independent thinking skills as well as vocabulary building and language construction. Creative drama techniques are used to take oral language into written text. Playwriting Workshops Storytelling and oral language are integral to the writing process. Using Playwriting and creative drama, these workshops demonstrate the structure of a story, character, action, conflict, and resolution. An original story is improvised with the class; then, working in small editing teams, the students brainstorm and create endings for the group effort using dialogue and scenic structure and, time permitting, sharing their work as a group reading. Teacher Training Workshops These workshops provide educators with storytelling tools for the classroom to encourage their students' oral and listening skills. Balanced literacy techniques show how to use these skills to develop student’s comprehension and writing skills. Workshops also offer suggestions for multi-disciplinary curriculum development based on story text. Performance Workshops Storytelling is a craft in which acting and oratory combine to create the original theater experience. Drawing upon his training and experience as a stage actor, Gerald Fierst uses theater games and improvisation to expand participants' stage presence, voice production and body movement so that story becomes spoken music and the storyteller learns to play within the structure as a jazz musician riffs within the melody.
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"EACH TUTOR AND STUDENT HAD SOMETHING WONDERFUL TO
SAY." Helen Lizmunzi, Lteracy Volunteers for Putnam County, NY
"IN DEVELOPING THE ELEMENTS OF A PLAY, YOU NOT ONLY
GAVE THE STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM, BUT KEPT THEM FUTURE ORIENTED
ABOUT INDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES WITH WHICH THEY COULD INVOLVE THEMSELVES
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