Authorship

Pearson, N. in Hall, N. (ed)(1989) Writing with Reason: The Emergence of Authorship in Young Children LONDON; Hodder and Staughton

Setting a context

Sharing Ideas
- What is your favourite story?
- why is it YOURS?
- picking up individual details

What are they key features? (fairy tales)
- Good guy / bad guy
- scary parts?

Adapting
- creating our own stories from existing features
- changing the path of the story
- using pre-scripted rules

Dialogic Teaching

Mercer, N. & Hodgkinson, S. (2008) Exploring Talk in School LONDON; Sage Publications

'Dialogic Teaching'
3 main areas

- organising interaction
whole class,
collaboration,
collective groups,
one to one (teacher),
one to one (pair)

- Teaching Talk
rote (repetition),
Recitiation (cue questions, clues),
Instruction, exposition (telling them what to do)

- Learning Talk
oral expression and interaction of the child
various different abilities
listening, being receptive
giving other time
thinking about what they hear

'The Art of Storytelling for Teachers and Pupils'

Grugeon, E. & Gardner, P. (2000) The Art of Storytelling for Teachers and Pupils: Using Stories to Develop Literacy in Primary Classrooms LONDON; Fulton

One good chapter on Oral Storytelling
- Good pointers about TELLING a story, differences to writing, or reading one from a book
- Developing a repertoire, creating a system for telling stories from what you have previously read
- Developing specific styles, language use, pacing etc. for specific stories
- 'Oral culture'. Using stories, told on TV, radio, parents etc. to for a code for storytelling. 'The right way to do it'.

'The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter'

Gussin Paley, V. (1990) The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter: The Uses of Storytelling in the Classroom LONDON; Harvard University Press

Excellent in-depth look at a storytelling project in a KS1 classroom.

Detailed accounts of each child and their relationship with storytelling
Good details on teacher and assistant persepctives
Specific strategy on storytelling
Language use - specifically documented
Good for translation of meaning - 'what do they mean when they say this'