Daley Jackson: Storytelling

Blog Share Entry      For this blog post, I decided to talk about another librarian’s blog called “Mighty Little Librarian” written by Tiffany Whitehead. She is a high school librarian at Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education with a School Library Certification and a graduate degree in Educational Technology Leadership from Northwestern State University. She was named one of the 2014 Library Journal Movers and Shakers and in 2016 a recipient of the Louisiana Library Media Specialist Award. She is also serving as the President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians. http://www.mightylittlelibrarian.com/      Wow! Talk about someone who has accomplished so much in her time as a librarian! She loves to read, uses social media, and understands technology very well. When I first saw the title of her blog I thought that it made total sense! School librarians are not viewed as important ...

     Storytelling Experience #2      For this week in SLIS 600, we learned how to use props in our storytelling experience. I wanted to use this free choice to kind of critique myself and discuss ways to improve my performance for future storytelling with props. After viewing my peers' videos with their props, I created more ideas for how I could have made my storytelling experience better. I realized that it is much harder to use props and a book at the same time so I had to put the book in front of me and refer back to it multiple times so I could utilize the props. The book I read was Humpty Dumpty Climbs Again by Dave Horowitz and illustrated by Dave Horowitz. I always remembered the older version of this book when I was little, but I thought this one gave a better picture in my mind and gave more details to the story.  My Storytelling Experience with Props! (It's harder than it looks!)      According to McNeil (2014), storytime shou...

 Storytelling Experience #1      My first storytelling experience was fun but challenging. I believe that I had to retake the video five times before I felt my final video was the best. This week in SLIS 600 we learned that storytelling is not only for young children. It is also beneficial for teens and young adults. I thought there is no way teens and young adults would even be remotely interested in being read to, however, the benefits of it can be educational. When I was trying to find a book to read for this assignment, I focused more on the elementary school-age level because I wanted to see how I did with voice cues and facial expressions.      I believe from experience that storytelling helps children with comprehension and vocabulary. According to Marcus (2002), “the formal grammar found in literature teaches them to speak correctly” (p. 12). Storytelling can give young children the opportunity to visually see the importance of communicati...

Reading Reflection: Week 1      After learning about the history of storytelling and understanding why storytelling is important I am excited to begin this journey that will lead to becoming a successful librarian. Storytelling is a work of art and has been around for centuries. Some things have changed in storytelling but the basics are still the same. Before learning about what storytelling consisted of, I thought it was just a person sharing a story or reading a story to children. But it was interesting to find out that people express beliefs, desires, and hope (Greene & Del Negro, 2010). I did not realize that reading to students orally would help them prepare to read for themselves. As a future librarian, I now know that there is much more than meets the eye when it comes to storytelling.       In my library, I will set a time for each class (kindergarten through third grade) to have storytelling. I must be fully prepared to present the c...