Resources

//This page contains links to resources that will be useful to teachers seeking to integrate stories and storytelling into their world language courses.//toc


 * [|Pattern Books] (like //If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)//
 * Topical Listing of Children's Books
 * [|Wordless Picture Books] - From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, organized by topic

- Blog about post-modern forms of storytelling - Contains an entire chapter on the power of story

- Website devoted to adolescent literacy with excellent reading activities and free, downloadable templates

- A searchable database of comics in French


 * [|Bibliodiversia] - Blog in Spanish that reviews culturally authentic children's books that highlight/support diversity

- Book filled with patterns for different kinds of books students can make by Dinah Zike

- Useful list of links related to children's literature (from Canada)

- Inexpensive place to order children's books in Spanish

- A website created by graphic novelist Gene Yang that contains a history of comics in education, reasons for using comics in education, and quality resources (both online and print-based) for educators who wish to use comics in their classrooms. (From [|Gene Yang] )

[|Common Core Sentence Frames] - Really helpful planning worksheets in English. Each contains a Common Core Standard, a checklist of essential skills required to meet the standard, a list of academic vocabulary needed for the task in both English & Spanish, question stems, and teaching notes & strategies.

- Coloring pages in Spanish

- A site dedicated to the art of digital storytelling

- An open course on digital storytelling

- Inexpensive place to order children's books in French

- Templates elementary students can use to create books in Spanish

- Images of children from around the world with their favorite toys and a brief paragraph about each one

- Cary, Stephen. [|Going graphic: Comics at work in the multilingual classroom]. Heinemann. ISBN 0-325-00475-7. A phenomenal book filled with practical ideas and activities for using comics as a tool for language teaching and learning in the K-12 classroom. The book is well-organized, research-based, and contains lesson plans and sample student work.

- 50 tools for telling a digital story, compiled by Alan Levine

- 7 key considerations for teachers

- Handouts from an ACTFL 2010 presentation that contain a comic analysis worksheet form, a comic creation worksheet that asks students to analyze complementarity, contrast, and redundant relationships among images and text, lesson plans, project rubrics, and more

- Collection of stories in English designed for elementary students. Each story features a different method for engaging students' during the story (i.e., papercutting, etc.)

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[|Listen & See] - Extensive collection of digital stories, organized by genre

- Book is full of successful pre-, during, and post-reading activities for children's books commonly used in elementary schools--ideas can be easily adapted to other books

-- One of a series of three books filled with reproducible blackline masters of humorous, wordless stories told through cartoons. Great for practicing narration in any language

- Very professional handout that provides instructions and examples for a host of reading strategies for middle schoolers

- A series of thematic units in French, [|Japanese], & Spanish available for free download (includes the unit about the giant and the little girl who is a cook)

- One-minute videos created by students from around the world, organized by country and topic (addiction, animals, child rights, cultural diversity, daily life, education, humor, illness, migration, poverty, sports, technology, etc.) **BE SURE TO PREVIEW THESE AS SOME ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CLASSROOM USE!**

- 4 panel, illustrated stories in Spanish that can be cut apart and sequenced by elementary students



- A PowerPoint presentation from an ACTFL session that contains loads of great examples for engaging students with culturally authentic texts in pedagogically sound ways

- Fascinating book outlines the importance of storytelling as the foundation of all presentations ([|20-word summary])

[|Rory's Story Cubes] - Can you create a story that connects all 9 images on the story cubes?



[|Teach 21 Strategy Bank]

[|Text Types & Story Poster]

[|Transmedia]

- Templates for a variety of different mini-books in Spanish that reinforce elementary science concepts - Book filled with patterns for different types of cross-curricular foldables, pop-ups, and other projects





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