Storytelling strategies for reaching and teaching children with special needs / Sherry Norfolk and Lyn Ford, editors ; foreword by Kendall Haven.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]Description: xxi, 218 pages ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781440853647
- 1440853649
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 372.677 S888 | Available | 33111009313558 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book supplies stories, essays, lesson plans and specialized storytelling strategies to help teachers "level the playing field" for all learners and better serve children with special needs.
More than 57 percent of the over 6 million American children with disabilities are in inclusive (i.e., general) classrooms; "self-contained" classrooms serve children whose disabilities are either more severe or disruptive. As much as 20 percent of the children in an inclusive classroom are identified as "disabled," with the highest percentage of these having learning disabilities. While most classrooms have at least one child with a disability, teachers often have little or no training in educating and caring for these children. The need for resources that support educators working with children with disabilities or social/emotional difficulties is clear.
This book fills this critical need, supplying school and public librarians, classroom and special area teachers, and storytelling teaching artists with storytelling strategies for reaching and teaching children with special needs in inclusive classrooms, self-contained classrooms, and public and school libraries. These full-text stories, essays, and lesson plans from experienced storytelling teaching artists provide educators with a wide range of adaptable storytelling and teaching strategies for specific disabilities and enable storytellers to discover news ways to perform their storytelling magic. The book also offers compelling real-life anecdotes that demonstrate the impact of these strategies in inclusive and self-contained classrooms; presents an introduction to the skills of storytelling, why they are useful, and how to use them; and includes suggested modifications for a wide range of disabilities as well as detailed resource lists.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Contributors who have told stories to children with special needs in classroom and library settings discuss storytelling: what, why, how; storytelling strategies for children with emotional or behavioral disabilities, with intellectual or developmental disabilities, with physical disabilities, and with multiple disabilities; and strategies for inclusive classrooms and general audiences. Among the topics are a language of empathy: etiquette of interaction with disabilities, making meaning from images, multi-sensory storytelling with children who have complex additional needs, and inclusive embodied storytelling strategies: power words."-- Provided by publisher.
Storytelling : What? Why? How? -- Storytelling strategies for children with emotional/behavioral disabilities -- Storytelling strategies for children with intellectual/developmental disabilities -- Storytelling strategies for children with physical disabilities -- Storytelling strategies for children with multiple disabilities -- Strategies for inclusive classrooms and general audiences.