Language, Literacy and Storytelling

Sixth grade is a funky year for most kids.  It is a transitional year from childhood into the first blush of the ...

I spent a week in rural North Carolina teaching sixth graders about how to present themselves and speak clearly using Greek mythology as a m...

Stories for the third through fifth grade group are doing two very particular things.  The first and foremost thing that this group of stori...

March 7, 2012 Today I was in an elementary school in Concord, NC.  The media center specialist told me that they never h...

There are lots and lots of wonderful spooky tales that you probably ought not tell young children.  There are lots and lots of wonderful spo...

Notes From The Road are about traveling, not necessarily what I did while I once I got out of the car! I spent this Wednesday at a Storyt...

Storytellers tend to feel it when we hit it out of the park.  When we leave a stage  or a classroom after having been incredibly successful,...