Engaging Teens with Story: How to Inspire and Educate Youth with Storytelling (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440845086)

Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.

Storytelling is often associated with storytime and library services to young children, but effective storytelling speaks to all ages--including teens. Engaging Teens with Story: How to Inspire and Educate Youth with Storytelling offers an in-depth look at storytelling for young adults that explains the benefits of storytelling with this audience, what current practices are, and storytelling opportunities to explore with youth. It provides a unique source of expert guidance that youth services librarians, professional storytellers, and middle and high school teachers will appreciate.

Readers will learn how to find stories for teens, apply proven techniques for successful telling of tales to teens, use traditional literature as a basis for creative writing, and establish a teen storytelling club or troupe. The guide also covers how teens can create their own stories with digital media; the connections between traditional folk and fairy tales and today's film, television, books, and online media; and how storytelling can be successfully used with at-risk youth.

Author: Janice del Negro
ISBN-10: 1440845085
ISBN-13: 9781440845086
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2017
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2017
School Library Journal 11/01/2017