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Anne Pellowski is a former storytelling specialist at the New York Public Library and founder and former director or the Information Center on Children’s Cultures of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. She...
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Darion McCloud has also worked in South Carolina in the children’s section of a public library. He is a storyteller and also an artist who does paintings and drawings. He has always been interested in...
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Diana Young, a storyteller and puppeteer, is from Texas. She learned to tell stories with her voice and her feeling from Augusta Baker! And, she often uses puppets to tell parts of the story, which...
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Ellin Greene has worked as a storytelling specialist in the New York Public Library system and served as a children’s literature specialists at the National College of Education. She says that telling...
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Gayle Holmes is a storyteller from South Carolina who has been not only telling stories, but creating stories for a long time. He favorite stories are from African and Asian cultures. Telling a story...
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Reconstruct the plot of the story - beginning, middle, and end- then extend the story. What happened next? The author does not tell us. Use you skills of inference to decide. AS long as you can...
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Students explore careers and create informational brochures about their chosen career.
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In Literary Tour of South Carolina, students will meet nationally recognized authors who call South Carolina home. As they learn about the writing process, students will hear what the authors have to...
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Kids Work! is a virtual community of workplaces designed to give students an interactive job exploration experience that connects school work to real work. South Carolina Standards Sub-series...
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After having read articles and/or novel that relates adolescent struggles or the story of a parent who looses his or her job, students will research an agency that families might refer to for...