35 June 16

Storytelling Links:

Effective Storytelling: A Manual for beginners.
Summary of the above webpage

How to tell a story: Some nice basic tips here, with eye-catching visuals

How to tell a story: Some nice tips about details in your story.
How to tell a story well: This article has some tips about pacing, eye contact, gestures, and voice.
How to tell a story well: This article has some information about defects that you should avoid.
How to tell a story well: Has the Cherry Tree Buck story
Stanford's Graduate School of Business has a storytelling course

Links to Stories:

Myths, Folktales, and Fairy Tales: Scholastic Books site where many authors provide information on storytelling.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts: Extensive site maintained by D.L. Ashliman of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Joy of Listening: by Eldrbarry, some of the links are no longer working.
We tell stories: Digital stories from Penguin. I especially enjoyed making my own fairy tale. I found the link here. No idea what kidosi is, but it had a lot of possibly interesting links.
Animal Myths and Legends: Australian site with simply told stories for children
Stories, Folklore and Fairy Tales Theme Page: interesting, but no longer active and a lot of the links don't work anymore

Story Structure:

Classic story structure begins with plot
Aspects of Narrative: Story Structure
Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales