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

'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'.