Literacy Series
Puppetry, Storytelling, and Book Arts Improve Literacy
Workshop I: Interactive
Storytelling
Explore participatory storytelling and extend reading into performance.
Learn to engage students in the story-building process using
improvisation, chants and rhythm to bring the characters to life.
Workshop II: Introduction to Puppet
Making
Convert a narrative into a puppet play. Learn to design and construct rod,
shadow, or found object puppets and table-top stages to activate a
story.
Workshop III: Book Arts:
Come away from this workshop with a solid knowledge of how to create
accordion and concertina folds, pop-up, scroll and animated book forms.
Workshop IV: Flip's Fantastic
Journal
Author-illustrator Angelo DeCesare invites participants to view reading as
an ongoing conversation between author and reader. Use the characters in
"Flip's Fantastic Journal" to create a variety of book art and
performance pieces.
Workshop V: Orderly Thinking
This workshop focuses on using graphic organizing techniques as tools or
creating reader's theater and staging classroom performances.
