Storytelling Tips

1. Brief Reminder of Image Order
2. The Most Important Thing
3. Getting Ready to Tell
4. Strategies for Learning and Remembering
5. Changing Traditional Tales
6. Caring for your Instrument
7. How to Pick a Story
   
8. Starting and Ending a Story
9. Ten Things to Take into Account When Telling Stories
10. The ABCs of Storytelling

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Tips for our "Slice of Life" Storytelling Series
Story Outline
Tips for Tellers
10 Things To Do if You are Nervous

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Suggested References

1.  Improving Your Storytelling by Doug Lipman
2.  The Storyteller's Start-up Book by Margaret Read MacDonald (there are three copies available in the Vancouver Island Regional Library)
3.  Inviting the Wolf In by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis

If you are interested in writing your own stories, you will find these books to be very useful references.
1.  From Plot to Narrative by Elizabeth Ellis
2.  The Book of Plots by Lorne Niemi
3.  Telling Tales, Storytelling in the Family by Gail de Vos, Merle Harris, & Celia Barker Lottridge
4.  The Power of Personal Storytelling by Jack Maguire

Collections of Folktales
1.  Best-Loved Folktales of the World, selected by Joanna Cole
2.  Favorite Folktales from around the World, edited by Jane Yolen