The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Rives Collins (Author), Pamela J. Cooper (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0137767099 | ISBN-13: 978-0137767090 | Publication Date: September 1, 1996 | Edition: 2nd

Previously titled Look What Happened to Frog, this text helps students become storytellers and use storytelling as a teaching technique across the curriculum. It encourages readers to find their own style of storytelling through exploring several different storytelling styles, and helps readers encourage storytelling by children as a learning experience for the children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 2nd edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137767099
• ISBN-13: 978-0137767090
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #780,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent guidance for storytellers by storytellers, February 27, 1999

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This review is from: The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

This book both extols and maps the art of storytelling. As is evident from the storytelling CDs and cassettes of Rives Collins ("We All Have Songs We All Have Stories" on the Louisa May Alleycat Music label and "Let's Fill Up the House with Stories and Songs" on the Southport Records/Louisa May Alleycat Music label--reachable at [e-mail]), Rives is a masterful storyteller. He knows how to marshall the power of story and to share with his readers and students the craft skills required for the oral tradition. Readers are both inspired to--and guided in how they can--tell their own stories and create magic from thin air. Pam Cooper's special expertise as author, teacher and storyteller brings special depth to the book.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars learn from the master, April 20, 2004

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Muriel Ruth Rathandle (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Learn from Rives - the master storyteller who enchants young and old, taking each on their respective journeys of adventure through a whole gamut of emotions and thoughts in each of his stories - Pamela Cooper must be brilliant too otherwise Rives wouldn't work with her. This book helped me tremendously in my storytelling, especially in deepening my understanding of what it means to have a set of continuums to find yourself on in each story as a teller in general. Find your voice on the continuum, be it theatrical or conversational, understated or animated, fully memorized or improvised, first person narrative or third person narrative...
Each chapter ends with an interview with a storyteller, spanning in type from child to librarian to teacher...
This book also provides a wealth of teaching material - incorporating story into drama in the classroom, in the true spirit of Rives' grandteacher Winifred Ward!
A true celebration!

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Storytelling Must Read!!!, June 29, 2006

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Ramzan A. Sultani "Yup Yup" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling (Paperback)

Collins and Cooper provide a unique approach to writing!! With this book you will gain activities, interviews and wonderfully writen works to use in a variety of ways. You will experience storytelling from those who tell it - GREAT BOOK, MUST READ!!!