2. Director of the Cook Library Center
1100 Grandville Ave SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-475-1150
Mother of 2 boys, 6th grade and 9th grade, originally from
Lansing, MI
First started telling stories in 1997 and keep broadening my
skills for school visits and for the library students
3. FLIP the SWITCH
Transitions in Time
Help children to transform their immediate
environment and exert a semblance of control
over what is happening.
4. Literacy Links
• Storytelling-based projects offer a
universal & inclusive teaching.
• They assist in the development of receptive
& expressive language skills and encourage
comprehension.
• They take from the immediate cultural &
social situations of the child
14. Environment Storytelling
• Eye Spy- great way to use adjectives
• Phone Play-Put a picture on your phone and have a
student make up a story.
• Imagine what is like to be something else… waiting
room chair, clock on the wall etc
• Rhyming game: Look around and make a story with
what you see around you and make it rhyme.
15. Storytelling Starters
Would You Rather…
Once upon a time retellings or fractured fairy tales
Retell a story about the day a child was born
Funny story about when you were young
That’s good, that’s bad story circle
A day in the life of a lunch bag, a magazine (empathy
exercise)
What super hero powers would you have?
What makes a leader? Exhibit at the Cook Library
Center
16. Additional Storytelling Resources
http://snapguide.com/guides/tell-a-simple-string-
story/ Follow this link to learn to how to tell the
string story, “The Mosquito.”
http://www.origamiwithrachelkatz.com/stories/storie
s.asp Origami and stories meet in this great site!
http://meusenotes.blogspot.com/p/cut-and-tell-
stories.html Cut and tell stories that are easy!