Once Upon a Time
Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater for Grades PreK-6
Presented by Judy Freeman
October 17, 2008
Pines Manor, Edison, NJ
Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited
Once Upon A Time Workshop 2008
Want 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 speaker, consultant and writer on all aspects of children's literature, storytelling, booktalking, and school librarianship. She is a visiting lecturer in the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches courses in children's literature and storytelling. A former school librarian, she gives conferences, workshops, speeches, and performances throughout the U.S. and the world for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national seminar presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research). Judy's wildly popular Winners! Conference, held every spring in New Jersey and sponsored by Libraries Unlimited, just celebrated its 22nd anniversary. Judy Freeman's wildly popular book and idea-packed full-day workshop, presented every Spring in North, South, and Central New Jersey — and for the first time with locations in New York — is now being sponsored by her publisher, Libraries Unlimited. For more than 20 years, Judy's WINNERS! Conference has offered innovative and practical ways to use the best of the year's children's books for curricular connections, thematic tie-ins, resource-based learning, and just plain fun. It's a field day for K-6 class room teachers, school and public librarians, library aides, reading specialists, curriculum coordinators, administrators, parents, and other children's literature-lovers.
Date and Location
Friday, October 17, 2008 at The Pines, Edison, 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 PDF format or word format), and send via
MAIL or FAX to the address below.
Libraries Unlimited Professional Workshops Department
7570 Thorn Creek Lane
Tega Cay, SC 29708
Office: 803-547-5206
Fax: 803-547-4387
Cell: 720-323-1070
Email: debby.laboon@lu.com
Flyer
A flyer is available in PDF format or word format for printing.