Hearthside Books & Toys

Nile Stanley and Brett Dillingham show busy K-8 teachers how to use storytelling to motivate and engage all students, especially struggling readers and writers, while supporting the standards. This practical guide provides standards-based mini-lessons for beginning, intermediate, and advanced storytellers, detailing how to develop and deliver a variety of stories for a variety of audiences. Complete with a story index, curriculum tie-ins, digital storytelling tips, a companion website with supplemental multimedia, and an audio CD with more than 70 minutes of stories and songs from well-known performers and authors.