Sara Cone Bryant

How To Tell Stories To Children And Some Stories To Tell

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• Project Gutenberg Impressum and Copyright Notice

HOW TO TELL STORIES
TO CHILDREN
AND SOME STORIES TO TELL

BY SARA CONE BRYANT

To My Mother
THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
DEDICATED

• Preface
• Introduction [The Story-teller's Art -- Recent Revival -- The Difference between telling a Story and reading it aloud -- Some Reasons why the Former is more effective]
• 1. The Purpose Of Story-Telling In School [Its immediate Advantages to the Teacher -- Its ultimate Gifts to the Child]
• 2. Selection Of Stories To Tell [The Qualities Children like, and why -- Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery -- Examples: The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The Old Woman and her Pig -- Suggestions as to the Type of Story especially useful in the several primary Grades -- Selected List of familiar Fairy Tales]
• 3. Adaptation Of Stories For Telling [How to make a long Story short -- How to fill out a short Story -- General Changes commonly desirable -- Examples: The Nurnberg Stove, by Ouida; The King of the Golden River, by Ruskin; The Red Thread of Courage, The Elf and the Dormouse -- Analysis of Method]
• 4. How To Tell The Story [Essential Nature of the Story -- Kind of Appreciation necessary -- Suggestions for gaining Mastery of Facts -- Arrangement of Children -- The Story-teller's Mood -- A few Principles of Method, Manner and Voice, from the Psychological Point of View]
• 5. Some Specific Schoolroom Uses [Exercise 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
• 6. 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.]