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Once Upon a Time
Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater for Grades PreK-6
Presented by Judy Freeman

October 22, 2009
at the Mansion on Main St., Vorhees, NJ

October 23, 2009
at the Birchwood Manor, NJ
Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited

Once Upon A Time Workshop 2009

Photo of Judy FreemanWant to turn your children into better listeners, enrich their thinking skills, and encourage their response to literature? When's the last time you told them a story?

"Telling stories? Isn't that hard to do? I love to read aloud to my students. Isn't that enough?" say overworked teachers and librarians. Find out what's been missing from your literary landscape and make reading come alive with Judy Freeman's energetic one-day storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater workshop.

Judy Freeman's hands-on, show-and-tell day is packed with easy-to-learn stories, poems, and songs. Her fast-paced workshop will offer scores of basic storytelling techniques and practical "tricks of the trade" you can use right away to make folklore and language come alive for your students. Watch reading skills and comprehension soar when you allow children to bring literature to life.

Judy's program will feature a wide range of storytelling and drama styles and techniques including:

  • Stories to hear today and tell tomorrow
  • Object stories
  • Draw-and-tell tales
  • Stories with music and chantable refrains
  • How to make a story your own
  • Ways to adapt stories for choral reading, creative drama, and Readers Theater
  • Script-writing techniques for children and adults
  • Literature extension activities incorporating storytelling and drama across the school and library curriculum
  • Strategies to keep your kids humming and playing with language using book-related songs, chants, poems, puzzlers, and wordplay

JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature, storytelling, and all aspects of librarianship. She is a visiting lecturer at the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches courses on children's literature and storytelling. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the United States and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Judy served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and was on the Sibert Committee for 2008.

Freeman's book, Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6 (Libraries Unlimited, 2007), won the 2009 Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award. Her mega-books, Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (2006) and its popular companions, Books Kids Will Sit Still For: The Complete Read-Aloud Guide (1990) and More Books Kids Will Sit Still For (1995), are indispensable resources for literature-based classrooms and libraries. Judy also writes the yearly The Winners Handbook, based on her Winners Workshops, reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy writes several online book review columns, including "Desperate Librarians" for the online database NoveList, and "What's New" for School Library Journal's Curriculum Connections. Her latest and most exciting project is writing the children's book reviews and content for author James Patterson's spectacular website for parents, teachers, librarians, and kids, www.ReadKiddoRead.com, which was named one of ALA's Great Web Sites for Kids for 2009 and won the first annual Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation in 2009.

Dates and Locations

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Mansion on Main St., Voorhees, NJ (Directions)

Friday, October 23, 2009 at the Birchwood Manor, Whippany, NJ (Directions)

Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. — doors will open at 8:00 for registration and continental breakfast.

Registration

Your $179.00 registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, an extensive conference handbook, and a certificate of participation (5 professional development contact hours).

To register, please print out the registration form (available in word format), and send via MAIL or FAX to the address below.

Libraries Unlimited Professional Workshops Department
23851 E. Phillips Place
Aurora, CO 80016
Office: 720-876-2033
Fax: 720-870-4892
Cell: 720-323-1070
Email: dlaboon@abc-clio.com

Flyer

A flyer is available in PDF format format for printing.