Let’s Pretend: Muriel leads children through a series of theater games and tells folktales from different cultures. Children role play and participate in interactively retelling a familiar tale.
Meets language arts and social studies standards.
Appropriate for ages 4- 9. 1 ½-2 hour session.

Envisioning and Re-visioning Fairy Tales and Folk Tales: Muriel involves the students in active listening to stories and engaging in storytelling activities that foster listening and retelling. Exploring plot, character, setting and sequence, each group prepares its own retelling of a tale and has a chance to “perform”. Muriel often incorporates masks and simple puppets.
Meets language arts standard. Enhances studies of fairy tales, folk cultures, literature.
May be adapted for ages 5-10. 2,3,or 4 sessions (1-2 hours each)

A Wondering World- Myths and Legends: By creating stories and retelling them, people throughout history have responded to essential questions of life and the world around them. Muriel shares some of these stories and helps students create original tales in response to questions they wonder about. This program is adaptable to various cultural and environmental themes.
Meets language art, social studies standard and science standards.
Especially appropriate to grades 4-6 and for outdoors programs. (3-5 one-1 ½ hour sessions)

Student Ambassadors for Character Education: These special storytellers discover stories with important messages to teach and learn techniques to effectively tell their favorite tales to younger listeners.
Meets language arts and social studies standards.
Especially appropriate to grades 4 and above.

Muriel is happy to speak with you about developing programs to specifically meet your needs.

Correlated With State Education Standards and Local District Standards.

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