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Once upon a time using storytelling, creative drama, and reader's theater with children in grades preK-6

Offers activities, strategies, and creative ideas for using nonsense rhymes, songs, chants, and folk literature to promote thinking, reading, and listening skills in young learners.

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Main Author:	Freeman, Judy
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, [2007].
Subjects:	Storytelling. Drama in education. Readers' theater > Juvenile nonfiction. Language arts. Parent teacher books.
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Summary:	Offers activities, strategies, and creative ideas for using nonsense rhymes, songs, chants, and folk literature to promote thinking, reading, and listening skills in young learners.
Physical Description:	ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781591586630 1591586631
Author Notes:	JUDY FREEMAN (www.JudyReadsBooks.com) is a well-known consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature and storytelling, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Information, and Library Science at Pratt Institute, New York City. 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). Freeman 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 Library Unlimited books include Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama , and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades PreK-6 , the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, and the yearly The Winners Handbook , reviewing her top 100 children's books of the past year. Judy's latest and most exciting project is writing children's book reviews and other content for author James Patterson's new website for parents, librarians, and teachers, www.READKIDDOREAD.com.