Literacy

The literacy broadcast day would not have been the same without you! Thanks for coming with all that talent. — Lynn Rogoski, WGBY, PBS

Mary Jo Maichack’s interactive programs
of storytelling, music & drama


Storytelling is recommended by the National Council of Teachers of English & state learning standards.


Frameworks Connections
At Last, Hard Evidence Mary Jo’s Storytelling is Critically Needed in Learning

Now, hard evidence is in from Kendall Haven’s book, “Story Proof” from “rigorous, research-based studies to prove the value of stories for the following key uses of story:

Is there a clear link between narrative comprehension and story? Yes.
…between writing and story? Yes.
…between story and logical and critical thinking? Definitely yes.
…between story and motivation? Most emphatically yes.
…between story and memory (learning)? Without question, yes!

Information in story form… is easier to remember and to recall. Information not presented in story form suffers degradation and loss in memory and during recall.

Is there a clear link between mastering language and story? Again, yes….

Understanding story helps language learners understand the purpose and organization of language as well as the specific vocabulary and grammar presented in stories….
ALL RESEARCHERS AGREE.


Here is a Sample of Frameworks Content Areas
Supported by Mary Jo’s Work:
Oral Presentations (Mass.–CT also available)
3.1 oral presentations, personal stories/enunciation & volume
3.2 clear focus on topic
3.4 Gr 3-4 eye contact, proper pace, volume and pronunciation
3.5 sequence of stories/beginning, middle, end
3.6 opinions
3.7 teacher assessment of such
Gr 5-6 changes in oral delivery, gestures, and oral dramatic effect, vocabulary
4.11 Idioms and figurative speech
4.12 Playful uses of language
4.13 determine meaning using context
4.14 recognize words w/ multiple meanings/ “A flea flew by a bee….”
gr 3-4 standard 5
5.8 Identify words from other languages adopted into English
prek-2 6
6.1 Identify formal and informal language in stories, poems, plays
gr 3-4 6.2 Dialect in conversational American folktales

# 16 Myth, Traditional Narrative and Classical Literature
prek-4 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Gr 3-4 myths and character types
16.6 Greek myths
Gr 5-6, 16. 7 Comp. traditional literature/ e.g. stories of constellations
16.8 magic helpers, rule of 3/transformations
#17 Dramatic Lit.
#18 Dramatic Reading and Performance
18.1 rehearse & perform stories plays & poems for an audience using eye contact, volume, clear enunciation 18.2/ 18.3
gr 5-6 develop characters

Call for more grades and connections.