Story Arts Online
Explore the ancient art of storytelling
GRADE LEVEL: Professional
http://www.storyarts.org/
CONTENT:
This site, created by storyteller and author Heather Forest, is designed to help educators improve their storytelling skills.
AESTHETICS:
Lots of great graphics appear on this site! The site also features a pleasing variety of colored borders that help keep it interesting. Real Player is needed to listen to the stories.
ORGANIZATION:
Navigation icons at the top and index bars at the bottom of each page for the whole site and individual sections make navigating easy.
REVIEW:
The Story Arts site will help you hone your storytelling skills. Users can explore ways to practice storytelling, such as retelling folktales and collecting family stories. Teachers will find lesson plans, activities, and articles with fresh ideas for using storytelling to teach language arts to students. Story Telling in the Classroom presents some compelling reasons for using storytelling with students, such as exploring cultural roots and developing important speaking and listening skills. A collection of folktales, including 26 Aesop's fables, retold by Heather Forest for students to explore and retell are available. The Story Theatre is a place where students can experience the pleasure of story listening with a click of the mouse.
