Stories to Tell to Children : Fifty-One Stories with Some Suggestions for Telling

By Bryant, Sara Cone

Book Id: WPLBN0000579850
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 740,592 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Stories to Tell to Children : Fifty-One Stories with Some Suggestions for Telling
Author:	Bryant, Sara Cone
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bryant, S. C. (n.d.). Stories to Tell to Children : Fifty-One Stories with Some Suggestions for Telling. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Excerpt: This little book came into being at the instance of my teaching friends all over this country. Their requests for more stories of the kind which were given in How to Tell Stories to Children, and especially their urging that the stories they liked, in my telling, should be set down in print, seemed to justify the hope that the collection would be genuinely useful to them. That it may be, is the earnest desire with which it is offered. I hope it will be found to contain some stories which are new to the teachers and friends of little children, and some which are familiar, but in an easier form for telling than is usual. And I shall indeed be content if its value to those who read it is proportionate to the pleasure and mental stimulus which has come to me in the work among pupils and teachers which accompanied its preparation. Among the publishers and authors whose...

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Some Suggestions for the Storyteller -- Additional suggestions for method -- Two valuable types of story -- Sources for stories -- -- A graded list of stories to dramatize and retell, ix -- Story-Telling in Teaching English -- Importance of oral methods -- Opportunity of the primary grades -- Points to be -- observed in dramatizing and retelling, in connection with -- English, xxix -- STORIES TO TELL CHILDREN -- Two Little Riddles in Rhyme, 1 -- The Little Pink Rose, 1 -- The Cock-a-doo-dle-doo, 4 -- The Cloud, 4 -- The Little Red hen, 7 -- The Gingerbread Man, 8 -- The Little Jackals and the Lion, 15 -- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, 19 -- Little Jack Rollaround, 23 -- How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant, 29 -- The Little Half-Chick, 33