Handmade Tales: Stories to Make and Take - Softcover

Targeted for elementary teachers, librarians and drama teachers, Handmade Tales contains over 25 stories appropriate for grades PreK through 3. Handmade Tales contains original stories and tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories. Grades PreK-3. Targeted for elementary teachers, librarians, and drama teachers, Handmade Tales offers more than 25 original tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories. Educators and librarians will love these make it and take it, easy projects they can do, take, and implement in their work with children. Easy, reproducible, step-by-step instructions accompany simple illustrations and photographs. Teachers and librarians can use this book with their students to reinforce the skills of sequencing and listening to and following directions. Grades PreK-3 Cut and Tell Draw and Tell| Hand Stories and Fingerplays and other Handy Tales (handkerchiefs, napkins, towels and other props) Paper Tales (fold and tell, roll books, paper fortune teller tales) String Stories Grades PreK-3.

Dianne de Las Casas was an award-winning storyteller and author who toured internationally presenting programs, teacher training, workshops, and artist residencies. Her performances, dubbed traditional folklore gone fun, were full of energetic audience participation.