Tales, Rumors, and Gossip

Tales, Rumors, and Gossip

Author: Gail de Vos

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1996-04-15

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0313069875

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Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.


Gotcha!

Gotcha!

Author: Kathleen A. Baxter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-12-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0313077746

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Thousands of children's books are published each year-some are outstanding, while others are not. This book makes it easier for you to find the best in children's nonfiction books, and it offers concrete, classroom-tested ideas for presenting them to students in irresistible ways. Booktalks for more than 350 nonfiction titles (appropriate for elementary and middle school students) are organized according to topics popular with young readers-Great Disasters, Unsolved Mysteries, Fascinating People, Science, and Fun Experiments to Do. In addition, there are tips on booktalking, an outline for a booktalk program, and a bibliography that can be used for collection development. Appropriate grade levels for each book are cited. Library Media Specialists will find this guide essential. The thematic approach helps teachers search for titles that correlate to curriculum areas or specific units of study. Parents can use the book with their children as a reading selection tool. Anyone who works with young children will find this book an invaluable resource.


Storytelling

Storytelling

Author: Janice M. Del Negro

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-06-24

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13:

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This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.


Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Author: Gale W. Sherman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1993-11-15

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0313080003

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Selected for their high interest, appealing formats, appropriate reading levels, outstanding writing, and popularity, these contemporary, spellbinding titles (20 for grades 5-8 and 20 for grades 9-12) reflect a variety of genres and themes that will encourage lifelong literacy. Given for each title are genre and themes, review citations, author information, plot summary, reading and interest rankings, booktalks, literature extensions, alternative book report suggestions, and reproducible bookmarks that suggest further reading.


The Moral of the Story

The Moral of the Story

Author: Bobby Norfolk

Publisher: august house

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780874837988

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Throughout history, traditional cultures have recognized the role of storytelling in teaching values to children. This user-friendly, hands-on guide to using storytelling and folktales in character education provides not only a rationale for this approach, it includes stories. These twelve stories are fun, time- and audience-tested, and accessible to a wide range of listeners, from preschool to high school. The tales are enhanced by suggested activities or informal lesson plans, source notes, and extensive bibliographies that point the reader to additional sources of folktales suitable for character education. Book jacket.


Hangin' Out at Rocky Creek

Hangin' Out at Rocky Creek

Author: Evie Wilson-Lingbloom

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780810826885

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Draws on some challenging problem areas from an imaginary yet familiar scenario at the fictional Rocky Creek Public Library, and addresses specific and practical skill development areas to help public libraries provide basic YA services. Appendixes include a list of titles recommended for a basic YA collection.


Contemporary Legend

Contemporary Legend

Author: Gillian Bennett

Publisher: Scholarly Title

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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This book lists works on "almost all major legends circulating in the 1990s in the United States, England, Western Europe" (p. xi) and includes brief descriptions of each.


Tales from the Southern-Fried Crypt

Tales from the Southern-Fried Crypt

Author: Ronald Kelly

Publisher: Macabre Ink

Published: 2023-05-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781637896563

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Below the pale orb of a full moon, a lone boat navigates the dark channels of the Louisiana bayou, moving between ancient cypress and the heave mats of Spanish moss that dangle from their gnarled limbs. Who are the two who brave the swamp at night? One is a lanky Cajun man by the name of Pierre, while the other is his visiting cousin from Tennessee. The man folks call... THE OLD STORYTELLER. Take a seat and join him as he shares ten terrifying tales on a midnight boat ride across black waters where no man should dare to go! It is dark and dangerous down on the bayou; a place full of horrifying critters and plenty of haints and spirits, too! See those mausoleums on the bank yonder? Listen closely, for that is where the dead tell their frightening stories! Be deathly silent and listen. Listen to the bonechilling: TALES FROM THE SOUTHERN-FRIED CRYPT! Stories included in this collection: Beneath Black Bayou Oh, Sordid Shame! The Web of La Sanguinaire N'awlins Haunted Crypt Tour Suckers! Saturday Night at Mee-Maw's Cat Daddy Fever Mojo Mama The Final Feature Embrace