Storytelling To Children: Easy-To-Tell Folktales

by Margaret Read MacDonald
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7 books
Children love to hear stories told. You create a special bond when you just sit down and share a tale with your child, or your classroom. These books are all designed to make learning tales very easy. Check out also Margaret Read MacDonald’s folktale picture books…they all feature easy-to-tell stories!
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The Parent's Guide to Storytelling

How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites
Margaret Read MacDonald, 2001
21 folktales that parents can learn quickly and delight their children with. Brief advice on sharing tales with your children. A great resource for teachers as well as parents. And these easy-to-learn tales are fun for older children to learn and share themselves.

Shake-it-up Tales!

Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum, and Act Out
Margaret Read MacDonald, 2000
20 delightful audience-participation folktales, some with musical elements. Easy to tell and great fun for the audience. Tales from the Ukraine, Thailand, France, China, Panama and many more.

The Squeaky Door

Margaret Read MacDonald, 2006
This repetitive Puerto Rican folktale tells itself. Read the picture book a few times, then put it away and just tell the story. Fun to act out with your children as well.

The Storyteller's Start-up Book

Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales Including Twelve Tellable Tales
Margaret Read MacDonald, 1993
How to find, learn, and perform folktales. Twelve tale samples, including tales for pre-school, elementary, and junior high. An easy-to-use guide for beginning storytellers.

Teaching with Story

Classroom Connections to Storytelling
Margaret Read MacDonald, Jennifer MacDonald Whitman, Nathaniel Forrest Whitman, 2013
21 Easy-to-tell stories that engage young listeners. Suggestions for tying these stories into curriculum needs. The stories are so easy-to-learn and fun to tell that there is no reason NOT to be telling stories in the classroom. Each takes 5 minutes to tell or less. Created by a kindergarten teacher, school librarian, and public library children’s librarian.

Three-minute Tales

Stories from Around the World to Tell Or Read when Time is Short
Margaret Read MacDonald, 2004
71 short tales from world folklore, some as short as 15 seconds! Teaching Tolerance says “Perfect for the last three minutes before the lunch bell rings!”

Twenty Tellable Tales

Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller
Margaret Read MacDonald, 1986
Twenty easy-to-learn tales. Perfect for pre-school or primary listeners. With notes on how to learn and tell stories.