You might also refer to storytelling resources like Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book, NPR’s Story Corps, the National Storytelling Network, or Bill Gordh’s storyteller website (see Further Explorations section below).įamily Stories and Folklore. To help them tell their story, use a graphic organizer that helps them plot out the structure, such as problem-action-solution or challenge-strategy-ending.

They might tell a favorite fairy tale, family story, or a story they’ve written themselves. Have students explore and practice the art of storytelling.

Storytelling, however, is not as easy as it seems, though, and skilled storytellers will explain how they study and practice it as a craft. From the time they were little, Lily and her sister Sam were mesmerized by Halmoni’s stories and begged her to tell them more stories. You can also choose to complete one part of a teaching idea, but not the whole thing. Some ideas are bigger and will take a number of days to complete. Note to our Readers: These ideas are not meant to be prescriptive. Keller’s skillful blend of storytelling genres and language makes this a novel that can straddle multiple ELA units and curricular objectives around narrative storytelling, family and friendship, and folklore, but it is the heart of Lily’s story that will resonate with readers across time. Part magical realism, part folktale, part contemporary realistic fiction, Tae Keller’s Newbery and APALA Award winning novel weaves a coming-of-age tale that is heartrending, haunting, and hopeful.As Lily navigates the situation, she learns how hope and history are intertwined, how fact and fiction can be blurred, and how identity is fragile, fluid, and expansive. When Halmoni falls gravely ill, Lily learns that Halmoni stole something from the tigers long ago, something that must be returned in exchange for healing her grandmother.

Lately, though, Lily has been seeing that tiger–on the road to Halmoni’s house, between the shelves at the library, and even in Halmoni’s house. Throughout her childhood, Lily thought the tiger in question was simply a creature from her halmoni’s (grandmother’s) Korean folk tales. Hypothetical as this question seems, for 11-year old Lily, it is actually a matter of life or death, though not as one might expect. “If it were your story, if a tiger was chasing you.

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