Book description
To kids everywhere, in the hope that their elders will never stop telling stories.
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 rationale for this approach, it includes…
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1 author picked Moral of the Story as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book contains twelve easily told tales that can be used to discuss character development. The Norfolks include suggestions for classroom use of the tales. I like to recommend this to the teachers in my storytelling classes as the advice comes from a teacher who has written several other books on using stories in the classroom.
From Margaret's list on storytelling for teachers.
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