Description
Targeted at primary school teachers, librarians and drama teachers, Handmade Tales contains 27 stories appropriate for students aged up to 9 years. The book contains original stories and tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories. The tales are grouped into five types: String Stories; Draw and Tell; Cut and Tell; Paper Tales (fold and tell, roll books, paper fortune teller tales); Hand Stories and Fingerplays; and Other Handy Tales.This book will appeal to educators and librarians, who will love the projects that they can take and implement in their work with children. Through personal experience in sharing handmade tales with teachers and librarians in workshops, the author will shares innovative tales that incorporate the use of the hands. Easily reproducible, step-by-step instructions accompany simple illustrations and photographs. Teachers and librarians will be able to use this book to reinforce the skills of sequencing and listening to and following directions with their students.
