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House That Santa Built, The

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House That Santa Built, The

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This merry take on The House That Jack Built features a mouse, elf, reindeer, and much more. Young readers can get in on the act thanks to sound prompts such as "squeak," "stomp," and "jingle.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1455617504

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9781455617500

Beware, Beware of the Big Bad Bear!

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Beware, Beware of the Big Bad Bear!

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A delicious folktale sure to make you laugh! Oh no, Maw Maw is out of the most important ingredient for her beautiful buttery biscuits- sody sallyraytus! She sends her family off, one by one, with a warning about the bear at the bridge. Follow along as they try unsuccessfully to get the sody sallyraytus home. Who knew that a friendly, and very hungry, squirrel would jump in to save the day! Readers can make their own fluffy biscuits with the recipe included at the end.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1455616907

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9781455616909

Tell Along Tales!

Playing with Participation Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Tell Along Tales!

Playing with Participation Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas

This book makes the perfect addition to teachers' and librarians' story time selections, containing 25 educational and entertaining tales from around the world as well as proven storytelling techniques. Storytelling predates reading. Storytelling is a vibrant tradition in nearly every culture on earth. And of course, storytelling serves as a perfect medium for educating young children and early readers. Specifically intended for elementary school and public librarians, teachers, storytellers, and camp counselors, Tell Along Tales!: Playing with Participation Stories contains 25 adapted tales from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Norway, Spain, and West Africa that are appropriate for kindergarten through sixth grade students. These stories are linked to standards and are full of fun audience participation, making them perfect for the library, classroom, camp, or home. The book will illuminate the best methods for telling a tale, describe various types of audience participation and how to encourage it, identify elements in a story that provide opportunity for participation, explain when to include audience participation, and share the author's proven audience management techniques.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598846361

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9781598846362

The House That Witchy Built

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The House That Witchy Built

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A Halloween version of "The House that Jack Built" features a witch, black cat, skeleton and other spooky images, and invites interaction through repetition, onomatopoeia and infectious rhyme.

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1589809653

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Blue Frog

The Legend of Chocolate

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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The Legend of Chocolate

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Relates the native Central American tale of how the gift of chocolate came to be shared by the gods with humans.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1455614599

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9781455614592

Tangram Tales

Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

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Tangram Tales

Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

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Targeted for elementary teachers, drama teachers, and teaching artists, Tangram Tales contains adapted tales from around the world appropriate for grades 2 through 6. Teachers can tell the stories in the classroom as part of a math unit, or have the students use the scripts provided here to perform the stories using tangrams. In the author's tangram story theater process, students are given roles as storytellers, tangram artists, and chorus members to create grade-level story presentations. Other tangram methods, such as individual student tangram tales and student-created tangram tales, are shared as well. The ways in which tangram tales connect language arts and math is demonstrated. The book includes simple black-and-white spot illustrations for each story, showing the tangram figures that depict the story. A reproducible tangram pattern is provided. Grades 2-6

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135

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598845071

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9781598845075

The Story Biz Handbook

How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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The Story Biz Handbook

How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage

By: Dianne de Las Casas

Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail, from choosing a sound system to building a website to using podcasts and setting up an office. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement.

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408

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313363803

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9780313363801

Stories on Board!

Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Stories on Board!

Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales

By: Dianne de Las Casas

This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis. Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool. In Stories on Board!: Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales, award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas shows how it's done, allowing students to create their own board games with a unique method that integrates learning and fun. With Stories on Board!, students read and listen to popular folktales, analyze the structure of the story through story mapping, and then create a board game based on their analysis, engaging their aural, visual, and tactile skills. The lesson culminates in a Game Day in which the students play each other's games. The technique is a great way to introduce a unit on folktales, covering language arts and social studies.

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118

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1591588642

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9781591588641

Spooktacular Tales

25 Just Scary Enough Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Spooktacular Tales

25 Just Scary Enough Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas

Written by a popular performer and well-known storyteller, this entertaining compendium reveals the secrets for suspenseful storytelling and features 25 spooky stories for audiences of all ages. Experienced performer and artist Dianne de Las Casas coaches students and adults in the art of telling scary stories. The book details de Las Casas's process for becoming a master storyteller and offers ways you can establish trust with audiences, provides tips for telling spooky tales, and shares methods for managing audience participation. Each of the 25 included stories is accompanied by one of various identifying icons, with selections ranging from suspenseful to comical to thrilling—foregoing those stories that contain gore or the grotesque. A brief section explains the benefits of scary stories, such as providing a safe way to exercise and develop our fear system, strengthening our coping skills by desensitizing us to unpleasant things, and building caution for actual frightening situations. Each tale is illustrated with a "scare-o-meter," an icon that rates how frightening the story is and identifies the most appropriate audiences for its telling.

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102

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440836914

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9781440836916

Handmade Tales 2

Tell Along Tales!

Playing with Participation Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Tell Along Tales!

Playing with Participation Stories

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Tales from the 7,000 Isles

Filipino Folk Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas,Zarah C. Gagatiga

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Tales from the 7,000 Isles

Filipino Folk Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas,Zarah C. Gagatiga

Celebrate the unique diversity and vibrancy of the Philippines through an in-depth exploration of the stories, traditions, songs, crafts, and recipes of the many different regions of the country. Tales from the 7,000 Isles: Filipino Folk Stories offers insights into the people and culture of the Philippines through dozens of tales representing the nation's various islands, regions, and cultural-ethnic groups. Designed to provide educators with material with which to enhance curriculum and lesson plans, the stories open a gateway to a rich and unique cultural mix. The tales presented here are divided into animal stories, how and why stories, tales of enchantment, trickster tales, and scary stories. In them readers can discern not only the native Filipino culture, but the influences of the many peoples who have moved through and settled in the islands, most notably Malay, Chinese, and Spanish, but also Arab, Indian, and American. A brief history of the country, its people, and their cultural traditions is included, as are crafts, children's games, recipes, and color photos. Notes about the stories, a bibliography, and a glossary complete the volume.

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159884699X

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Beware, Beware of the Big Bad Bear!

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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The Story Biz Handbook

How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage

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Three Eyes for the Journey

African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

By: Dianne M. Stewart

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Three Eyes for the Journey

African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience

By: Dianne M. Stewart

Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.

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Oxford University Press

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0198039085

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House That Santa Built, The

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House That Santa Built, The

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This merry take on The House That Jack Built features a mouse, elf, reindeer, and much more. Young readers can get in on the act thanks to sound prompts such as "squeak," "stomp," and "jingle.

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The House That Witchy Built

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The House That Witchy Built

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A Halloween version of "The House that Jack Built" features a witch, black cat, skeleton and other spooky images, and invites interaction through repetition, onomatopoeia and infectious rhyme.

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Blue Frog

The Legend of Chocolate

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Blue Frog

The Legend of Chocolate

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Relates the native Central American tale of how the gift of chocolate came to be shared by the gods with humans.

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Kamishibai Story Theater

The Art of Picture Telling

By: Dianne de Las Casas

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Kamishibai Story Theater

The Art of Picture Telling

By: Dianne de Las Casas

De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures. The book offers tips on rehearsing and detailed discussion and background of the Kamishibai processes, and it describes how to coordinate grade-level story presentations. Reproducible tales can be distributed to each member of the class to aide in creating illustrations. The stories in Kamishibai Story Theater will delight children in grades 2-6, enticing them to participate in their own story fest. De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures. Kamishibai theater harkens back to itinerant storytellers (Kamishibai Men) who conveyed their tales by means of illustrated cards slid into slots in wooden stages built on the back of their bicycles. This book includes an introductory chapter describing in detail the methods to use in coaching students in the art of Kamishibai Story Theater. It offers tips on rehearsing, and detailed discussion and background of the Kamishibai processes, and it describes how to coordinate grade-level story presentations. Reproducible tales can be distributed to each member of the class to aide in creating illustrations. Spot illustrations for each tale give students an idea of the flavor of their drawings for that story. The stories in Kamishibai Story Theater will delight children in grades 2-6, enticing them to participate in their own story fest.

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0313090602

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Spooktacular Tales

25 Just Scary Enough Stories

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25 Just Scary Enough Stories

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9798216148029

Kamishibai Story Theater

The Art of Picture Telling

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The Art of Picture Telling

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Tangram Tales

Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

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Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

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1598845071

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Tales from the 7,000 Isles

Filipino Folk Stories

By: Dianne de Las Casas,Zarah C. Gagatiga

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Filipino Folk Stories

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159884699X

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Cool Kids Cook

Fresh and Fit

By: Kid Chef Eliana,Dianne De Las Casas

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Cool Kids Cook

Fresh and Fit

By: Kid Chef Eliana,Dianne De Las Casas

Chef Eliana proves that you don't need years of culinary school to be a good adventurous cook and eater! She is one of a growing army of kids who love getting in the kitchen and creating healthy and delicious food that kids and their families all love. In Cool Kids Cook: Fresh and Fit, her recipes are simple enough that kids can do it (with some adult supervision) but interesting enough that no one will get bored of eating it. My chef's hat off to Chef Eliana."-Tanya Steel, editor in chief, Epicurious.com Everyone benefits from healthy menus, and Kid Chef Eliana has created a collection of twenty-six recipes that focus on flavor and fresh ingredients. Her recipes are easy to prepare and kid-friendly. With mouth-watering dishes, including such tasty treats as Vinegar and Sea Salt Kale Chips, Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry, and Inside-Out Peach Crumble, the whole family will be eating nutritious meals prepared by their very own kids!

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Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated

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1455618926

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