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Connections with the Ohio Academic Content Standards
Language Arts
Reading Applications
Sharpen Listening Skills
Storyteller will demonstration context and presentation of ideas in an organized
way.
Good oral
presentations
Figurative
speech
Descriptive vocabulary
Adjust
volume and stress important words
How
to set up suspense and humor
Storyteller will provide time for the students to summarize the story
Allow students to see how people are much alike
Writing Process
Storyteller will talk about pre-writing of a story; discuss revising and editing both in the oral and written presentations of a story
Storytelling
How to set
up good starter sentences and use description to enhance interest in the story.
If they wish, someone else will want to read their stories
and understand the story
Reading Comprehension
Using the
stories, students will see how to identify the main idea,
See how ideas connect, Predict outcomes, Draw conclusions and
make inferences.
Students will adequately follow the story and figure out what
is coming.
Literacy Applications
Analyze
plot, setting
Identify the theme, major ideas and cause and effect
Appreciation of other stories
Be able to respond to the stories
Student will get a feel for good stories and character
development
Critical Thinking
Be able to
formulate open-ended questions
Develop a critical look at the aspects of the problem
Critique the characters and their actions
Brainstorm possible alternative actions
Using critical thinking skills come up with a better plan
Student will able to look at a situation and generate some
ideas to resolve it
and using this generalize to other situations.