Bilingual Storytelling: Stor e Telling June July 2015

Uncle Henry and Aunt Em

From the Emerald City of Oz

Illustration by John R. Neill, 1900

I am continuing to share my Stor e Telling columns from the National Storytelling Magazine. The resources below are from the June July 2015 issue. All of the links have been checked and updated where necessary.

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This issue on bilingual storytelling; I begin with some sites to complement the theme.

Bilingual Storytimes: Utah Department of Heritage and Arts - The following resources were from Bilingual Storytime for Gringos at the 2009 Utah Library Association Conference.
https://heritage.utah.gov/library/spanish-bilingual-storytimes

Bilingual Books for Kids - This site offers book suggestions on a variety of themes: fairytales, myths, legends, fables, nursery rhymes, songs and more.  Activities and coloring pages are also included.
http://www.bilingualbooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=0

Colorin Colorado - An array of terrific resources for teaching English Language Learners. This is the link to the main page http://www.colorincolorado.org/. This link takes you to reading tip sheets in 12 languages for parents who want to establish a love of reading with their children.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/reading-tip-sheets-parents

Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy: Story Blocks – Videos of songs and rhymes in English, Spanish and Vietnamese from infant to preschool.http://www.storyblocks.org/videos/

Idaho Commission for Libraries: Bilingual Storytime Ideas - Read aloud books, fingerplays, songs and rhymes to make your bilingual story time shine.
http://libraries.idaho.gov/files/Storytime-Bilingual.pdf

Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission – A lovely selection of songs, fingerplays, books, and more for preschool programs, in English and Spanish.

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ld/pubs/bilingual/preschoolers/index.html

Little Bilingues – Downloadable books of activities in English and French.
http://www.littlebilingues.com/free_materials.html

BILINGUAL STORIES AND LESSON PLANS

Culture in the Classroom and the Language of Folklore – Short article on why folktales work for ELL students, along with some sample activities with stories to use.
http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2013-10-01/2.html

Everything ESL – “Forty-Two content based lesson plans for beginning to intermediate students.”
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/

Magic Tales of Mexico – Nine Mexican folktales, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova, Jr.. The stories are shared in Spanish and English.
http://www.g-world.org/magictales/

Ten Folk-tales from the Cape Verde Islands – The folktales are shared in both English and Portuguese.
https://archive.org/stream/jstor-534343/534343_djvu.txt

STORIES

July 26 is Aunt and Uncle Day in the United States. Here are a few stories to add to our repertoire.

Aunt Rachel’s Curse – United States
http://tinyurl.com/lenov6n

The Aunts - Portugal
http://tinyurl.com/mk8z39u

Bundar Bahadur Poon - Nepal
http://tinyurl.com/mvbjsgf

Chittapas (uncles) Or Cheats - India
http://tinyurl.com/k7x4249

The Icon’s Warm Bread - Greece
http://tinyurl.com/mqsv3jd

The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts – Ireland
http://tinyurl.com/kvy7t7f

The Strange Creature – Zimbabwe
http://tinyurl.com/oy6sz8p

Uncle Bouki and Ti Malice - Haiti
http://tinyurl.com/mcsvgv2

The Wolf Aunt - Persia
http://tinyurl.com/pdjtm6s

ADDITIONAL STORY SITES

A Collection of Wisdom – Mulla, Sufi, Indian, Buddhist folktales and more. These stories are short in length but long in wisdom. They would be especially useful in a beginning storytelling workshop if you need some tales to help your student’s succeed.
http://www.rodneyohebsion.com/folktales.htm 

Ethiopian English Readers – Eighty-eight stories from the different regions of Ethiopia. My thanks to storyteller Donna Dudinsky for sharing this site.
http://www.ethiopianenglishreaders.com/

Stories4U – A site filled with story; Mythology, the Panchatantra, Folktales, Legends and more.
http://stories4u.50webs.com/vik_intro.html

Please note, websites change at a rapid pace and weblinks may change or break without notice. I cannot be responsible for redirected or broken links.  At the time of this posting all links were in working order. Thank you for understanding.

Karen Chace 2016 ©

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