Raising Voices: Creating Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes

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Anyone who wants to start a youth storytelling group or troupe will find a wealth of practical information and inspiration in this guide. Written by two veteran storytellers and storytelling group leaders, this book takes you step by step through the entire process of planning, starting, managing, and growing your storytelling group-even up through taking the show on the road. Complete instructions for teaching storytelling skills and performing are accompanied by dozens of reproducible activities and practical tips-from how to recruit members and how to adapt stories for telling to what to wear when performing, and fundraising ideas. Storytelling is a powerful teaching and learning tool. It increases literacy and language skills, builds creativity and imagination, instills confidence, encourages cooperation and collaboration-and it's great fun for everyone! Share the gift of storytelling with young people and watch them grow. Grades 4-12.

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"Raising Voices shows how storytelling gives youth the opportunity to find and develop their own special voice that otherwise may never be heard....[h]as relevance and utility for Texas Speech Communication Association and Texas Forensic Association and that the field of communication needs such a venue as storytelling."-Texas Speech Communication Journal
steeped in the confidence of two expert storytelling organizers. You can do it. Sima and Cordi will help you.-Story Bag
A unique and reliable blueprint for beginning and sustaining a successful group or troupe of storytellers from grades 4 to 12....Raising Voices is the complete, and essential, handbook for this special group of storytellers.-School Library Journal
For those teachers and librarians who believe in story and the value of storytelling with youth, this book is a must-purchase.... Sima offers a highly recommended purchase worth every penny for those seeking fun ways to program and facilitate skill-development....-VOYA
How I wish I had had this book when I was doing extended Oklahoma Arts Council residencies in the schools!...I recommend this book highly to storytelling groups of ALL ages!-Territorial Tattler
Raising Voices shows how storytelling gives youth the opportunity to find and develop their own special voice that otherwise may never be heard....[h]as relevance and utility for Texas Speech Communication Association and Texas Forensic Association and that the field of communication needs such a venue as storytelling.-Texas Speech Communication Journal
Starred Review Master storytellers Sima and Cordi offer a step-by-step approach to setting up and working with school age storytelling groups....This is an excellent resource for a teacher or library media specialist working with any age group of storytellers. The reproductive forms, checklists, sample letters and the extensive bibliography or recommended books alone make this a worthwhile purchase. Highly Recommended.-Library Media Connection
"steeped in the confidence of two expert storytelling organizers. You can do it. Sima and Cordi will help you."-Story Bag
"A unique and reliable blueprint for beginning and sustaining a successful group or troupe of storytellers from grades 4 to 12....Raising Voices is the complete, and essential, handbook for this special group of storytellers."-School Library Journal
"For those teachers and librarians who believe in story and the value of storytelling with youth, this book is a must-purchase.... Sima offers a highly recommended purchase worth every penny for those seeking fun ways to program and facilitate skill-development...."-VOYA
"How I wish I had had this book when I was doing extended Oklahoma Arts Council residencies in the schools!...I recommend this book highly to storytelling groups of ALL ages!"-Territorial Tattler
"Starred Review Master storytellers Sima and Cordi offer a step-by-step approach to setting up and working with school age storytelling groups....This is an excellent resource for a teacher or library media specialist working with any age group of storytellers. The reproductive forms, checklists, sample letters and the extensive bibliography or recommended books alone make this a worthwhile purchase. Highly Recommended."-Library Media Connection

Author Bio

JUDY SIMA, Media Specialist for more than 30 years, is the Michigan State Liaison to the National Storytelling Network. KEVIN CORDI, the first full-time high school storytelling teacher in the country, is co-chair of the National Storytelling Networks Youth Storytelling Special Interest Group. His program has received the National Service Award from the National Storytelling Network.