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STORYTELLING SKILLS by passing a gesture and sound toeach other.The person in the center repeats the gesture and sound until the group can do it correctly,then it is passed to another person who presents a new gesture and sound.\n\nRidgefield Storytelling and Family Folklore Project  \nIn Ridgefield,school library/mediaspecialists,reading consultants,teachers,and the public library children's librarianhave been developing a storytelling pro-gram for several years.An active Story-telling League at the Ridgefield libraryprovides the community and people fromsurrounding areas with a dynamic train-ing ground.  \nnounced by the Connecticut State Libraryand the Connecticut State Department ofEducation,storytelling was a natural areaof interest for Ridgefield.$3,400.wasawarded to the Ridgefield schools andthe library to develop_the RidgefieldStorytelling and Family Folklore Project.The project was designed to help teachers,librarians,community volunteers,andchildren to develop their own storytellingskills,and to teach them how to use thoseskills with others.The project was design-ed to continue indefinitely.It involvedand presently includes families,schoolmembers,community groups,and localhistorians.  \nWe recognize that storytelling is asharing experience.It is a valuable tooluseful for developing rapport between thelisteners and teller,for gaining the confi-dence of children,and for developing asense of community among diverse indi-viduals and age groups.Storytelling en-ables the listener to visualize,develops anappreciation of language and the beautyof words,and stimulates the imaginationand sense of humor.For the teller,story-telling enhances oral expression and re-fines presentation skills.  \nA great amount of preplanning andorganization went into the Ridgefield Pro-ject.Representatives of the five elemen-tary schools and the junior high each plan-ned for activities in their schools by or-ganizing groups of children and teachers.School members worked to create thebeginnings of storytelling programs ineach school.  \nWhen the availability of Library Ser-vices and Construction Act grant moneyto promote school library/media centerand public library cooperation was an-  \nThe bulk of the grant money was used  \nto hire professional storyteller,LauraSimms,and New Hampshire State Folk-lorist,Linda Morley.Their role was toprovide the training through workshopsand to act as catalysts for developing re-lated projects.Laura was instrumental inthe design and implementation of theproject.Her residency in Ridgefield lastedten days.Linda was involved because ofher expertise in family folklore.She par-ticipated for three and a half days.  \nThe residency part of the project be-gan on October 31.Laura arrived to pre-sent an open community concert of thrill-ing,chilling tales.That Halloween perfor-mance was the first in the ten day seriesof workshops that were conducted by Ms.Simms and Ms.Morley for the project.  \nTwo full days of workshops for agroup of thirty-five adult representativesof the community and schools followedthe initial concert.At that time the adultsexperienced the art of learning to tell astory;learned techniques to develop story-telling skills with children;and sharedmuch of themselves with others.Duringthe eight days following the workshops,Laura went into the schools to demon-strate her methods and work with groupsof children.Linda worked concurrentlyin the schools to address a different as-pect of storytelling.She discussed folk-lore,family tales,and interviewing techni-ques with groupsof children and teachers.  \nIn addition to working with children,both women presented two other work-shops.One was directed at primary schoolteachers not already involved in the grant,the other was designed for interestedcommunity members who had not yetbeen involved in the joint library/sch","cbCaiiTy6rCEETFX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiTy6rCEETFX","pdf",2847821,"English","# A Class Group Is Practicing Storytelling Skills\n## 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