How To Tell Children Stories, page 8 by Sara Cone Bryant
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nd Voice, from the Psychological Point of View
CHAPTER V
SOME SPECIFIC SCHOOLROOM USESExercise in Retelling--Illustrations cut by the Children as Seat-work--Dramatic Games--Influence of Games on Reading Classes
STORIES SELECTED AND ADAPTED FOR TELLING
ESPECIALLY FOR KINDERGARTEN AND CLASS I.
Nursery Rhymes Five Little White Heads Bird Thoughts How we came to have Pink Roses Raggylug The Golden Cobwebs Why the Morning-Glory climbs The Story of Little Tavwots The Pig Brother The Cake The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town Why the Evergreen Trees keep their Leaves in Winter The Star Dollars The Lion and the Gnat
ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES II. AND III.
The Cat and the Parrot The Rat Princess The Frog and the Ox The Fire-Bringer The Burning of the Ricefields The Story of Wylie Little Daylight The Sailor Man The Story of Jairus's Daughter
ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES IV. AND V.
Arthur and the Sword Tarpeia The Buckwheat The Judgment of Midas Why the Sea is salt Billy Beg and his Ball The Little Hero of Haarlem The Last Lesson The Story of Christmas
THE CHILD-MIND; AND HOW TO SATISFY IT
A short List of Books in which the Story-teller will find Stories not too far from the Form in which they are needed.
INTRODUCTION
Not long ago, I chanced to open a magazine at a story of Italian life which dealt with a curious popular custom. It told of the love of the people for the performances of a strangely clad, periodically appearing old man who was a professional story-teller. This old man repeated whole cycles of myth and serials of popular history, holding his audience-chamber in whatever corner of the open court or square he happened upon, and always surrounded by an eager crowd of listeners. So great was the respect in which the story-teller was held, that any interruption was likely to be resented with violence. < previous next >