Full Description
Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.
Storytelling is often associated with storytime and library services to young children, but effective storytelling speaks to all ages—including teens. Engaging Teens with Story: How to Inspire and Educate Youth with Storytelling offers an in-depth look at storytelling for young adults that explains the benefits of storytelling with this audience, what current practices are, and storytelling opportunities to explore with youth. It provides a unique source of expert guidance that youth services librarians, professional storytellers, and middle and high school teachers will appreciate.
Readers will learn how to find stories for teens, apply proven techniques for successful telling of tales to teens, use traditional literature as a basis for creative writing, and establish a teen storytelling club or troupe. The guide also covers how teens can create their own stories with digital media; the connections between traditional folk and fairy tales and today's film, television, books, and online media; and how storytelling can be successfully used with at-risk youth.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Janice M. Del Negro and Melanie A. Kimball
Chapter 1: Storytelling and Young Adults: An Overview of Contemporary Practices
Sujin Huggins
Chapter 2: Your Brain on Story: The Science of Storytelling
Kendall Haven
Chapter 3: Digital Storytelling
Rebecca J. Morris
Chapter 4: Folk and Fairy Tales and Popular Media: Strong Females, Rehabilitated Witches, and Villains We Love to Hate
Melanie A. Kimball
Chapter 5: Telling Stories to Young Adults
Janice M. Del Negro
Chapter 6: Young Adults Tell Stories: How to Start Storytelling with Teens
Kevin D. Cordi
Chapter 7: Storytelling with At-Risk Youth
Lorna MacDonald Czarnota
Chapter 8: The Writing Connection: Young Adults, Folk Tales, and Urban Legends
Gail de Vos
Bibliography and Further Reading
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
