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Storytelling Lesson Plan

This lesson plan spans 4 to 6 days and teaches 4th and 5th grade students the art of storytelling. On the first day, the teacher introduces storytelling and reads a spooky story from a book to the class. On the second day, the teacher models storytelling techniques by retelling the story. Students then choose their own story to practice. On subsequent days, students work in pairs and groups to practice their stories, providing peer feedback. By the final day, students present their stories to the class, with the teacher evaluating them based on a rubric. The goal is to develop students' public speaking and storytelling skills.

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Storytelling Lesson Plan

This lesson plan spans 4 to 6 days and teaches 4th and 5th grade students the art of storytelling. On the first day, the teacher introduces storytelling and reads a spooky story from a book to the class. On the second day, the teacher models storytelling techniques by retelling the story. Students then choose their own story to practice. On subsequent days, students work in pairs and groups to practice their stories, providing peer feedback. By the final day, students present their stories to the class, with the teacher evaluating them based on a rubric. The goal is to develop students' public speaking and storytelling skills.

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Storytelling Lesson Plan

by Barbara Strobel

Grades: 4 and 5

Duration: 4 - 6 days

Objectives:

• To engage children in the art of storytelling


• To develop public speaking skills

Materials Needed

• Spooky New England


• Peer-conferencing sheet
• Rubric

Teacher Prep:

• Read part III: Invisible wonders of Spooky New England (you can really use any section but the part III stories work
the best.)
• Choose 1 story to become familiar with. You will re-tell this story to your class.

• See web site for tips on storytelling: www.pampetty.com/storytelling.htm

Day 1
Introduction:

• Share spooky New England with students


• Read your chosen story to the class

Discussion:

• What is storytelling?
• What makes a good storyteller?
• Retelling without sounding like it is memorized
• Know the key points of your story.
• Practice

Day 2
Model Storytelling:

• Retell the story you have read to the class making sure to demonstrate points to the class that you previously
discussed.
• Have the students share what they noticed about your storytelling that made it good.
Activity

• Students will read stories from Spooky New England Part III (Or whatever section you want them to look at.)
• They will choose 1 story that they want to work with.

Day 3
Discussion:

• Go over the rubric with the students


• Go over the peer conferencing sheet with them

Activity:

• Students will start practicing their story


• Students meet with a partner
• They critique each others storytelling abilities using the peer conferencing sheet

Day 4
Activity:

• Students will meet in groups of 3 or 4


• Each will take a turn telling their story
• Each member of the group will fill out a peer conferencing sheet for the other members of the group.

Day 5
Assessment:

• Students will present their story to the class.


• The teacher will use the rubric to assess the students
Spooky New England

Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and other Local Lore

by S.E. Schlosser

The Devil put down the glass and said: "Now, I think you have seen for yourself that I
can make you the richest man in the province. So, in return for your agreement to
deliver your soul to me," he drew a thick parchment from his pocket, "I will engage,
on my part, to fill your boots with gold on the first day of each month."

Meet General Moulton of Hampton, New Hampshire, who learns too late that you
should never try to trick the Devil. The Devil and Jonathan Moulton is just one of 30
spooky New York characters found in these expertly retold folktales by master
storyteller S. E. Schlosser.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Ghost Stories

Chapter 1. The Telltale Seaweed


Chapter 2. The Lady in Black
Chapter 3. The Blue Rock
Chapter 4. The Voyage of the Palatine
Chapter 5. The Ghost of Elvira Blood
Chapter 6. The Watcher of the Isle of Shoals
Chapter 7. The Ghosts of Georges Bank
Chapter 8. Ocean-born Mary
Chapter 9. The Wraith in the Storm
Chapter 10. Emily's Bridge

Part Two: The Powers of Darkness

Chapter 11. The Black Dog of Hanging Hills


Chapter 12. Old Trickey
Chapter 13. The Fatal Glass Eye
Chapter 14. The Man Who Could Send Rats
Chapter 15. The Devil's Hole
Chapter 16. Tom Dunn's Dance
Chapter 17. Old Betty Booker
Chapter 18. The Devil and Jonathan Moulton
Chapter 19. The Loup Garou
Chapter 20. Captain Paddock and Crookjaw

Part Three: Invisible Wonders

Chapter 21. The Man Who Made Weather


Chapter 22. The White Deer
Chapter 23. At the Sign of the Sir Charles
Chapter 24. The Image of Saint Francis
Chapter 25. Whaling-boat in the Sky
Chapter 26. The Bridge
Chapter 27. Mary's Flower
Chapter 28. The Dancing Mortar
Chapter 29. The Witch-Sheep
Chapter 30. The Frogs of Windham

About the Author


S. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built themselves into full-
length stories. A graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature and Rutgers University, she also created and maintains the
Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all fifty states, some dating back to the origins of
America.

About the Illustrator


Paul G. Hoffman trained in painting and printmaking, with his first extensive illustration work on assignment in Egypt,
drawing ancient wall reliefs for the University of Chicago. His work graces books of many genres--children's titles, textbooks,
short story collections, natural history volumes, and numerous cookbooks. For the Spooky series he employed a scratchboard
technique and an active imagination.

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