Reading - Literary Text

Students learn comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading text.

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Storyteller Chetter Galloway, of Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in African and African American stories. His renditions are energetic and animated. He blends his stories with music, drumming, sound...

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Willy Claflin | Inside Storytelling

Willy Claflin resides in San Francisco, He grew up in New Hampshire. He is a former classroom teacher. While at Harvard, he performed music and comedy. He knows hundreds of folk songs. His stories...

Connie Regan-Blake | Inside Storytelling

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Connie Regan-Blake | Inside Storytelling

Connie Regan-Blake is considered a pioneer in bringing storytelling to a national audience. She helped to shape and ignite the American storytelling revival. She is a founding member of the National...

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Darion McCloud | Inside Storytelling

Darion McCloud is a storyteller who works in the children's room of the Richland Library in Columbia, S.C. He is also an actor and director of theater productions. Most notably, he is the artistic...

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Kelly Swanson | Inside Storytelling

Kelly Swanson combines the art of theater, standup Southern comedy, and storytelling. Her wholesome stories, centering on the fictional town of Cedar Grove and its inhabitants, often offer a poignant...

Kitty Wilson-Evans | Inside Storytelling

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Kitty Wilson-Evans | Inside Storytelling

Kitty Wilson-Evans is a nationally acclaimed historic interpreter and storyteller. Her most famous slave reenactment is the character of Kessie, who is a fictionalized blend of Kitty’s reenactment...

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Mike Ethridge | Inside Storytelling

A storyteller since 1990, Mike Ethridge is a litigation attorney residing in Charleston, S.C. His stories include ghost stories, folk tales, and personal anecdotes. He frequently includes music in his...

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Minerva King | Inside Storytelling

Minerva King is a storyteller and oral historian. Her stories feature African American, African, West Indian, and Native American tales. She often visits schools as a storyteller and believes that...

Ramona Moore Big Eagle | Inside Storytelling

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Ramona Moore Big Eagle | Inside Storytelling

Ramona Moore Big Eagle is an oral historian and legend keeper from the Tuscarora National Reservation. She is a cultural educator for Tuscarora/Cherokee. Her storytelling is interactive, using...

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Rixon Lane | Inside Storytelling

Rixon Lane began telling stories at age 5. At 10, he won a Gold Medal at the 2002 National Storytelling Youth Olympics. In 2004, he was a keynote speaker at the National Storytelling Convention. He...

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