http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/05/16/jim-flanagan-storytelling-and-writing-are-intertwined/ Interviewing the best of the Storytelling Community. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:42:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/05/16/jim-flanagan-storytelling-and-writing-are-intertwined/comment-page-1/#comment-185204 Jon Huckins Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:59:35 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=29#comment-185204 Great insight and I totally agree. I just wrote a book titled Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and I also put a significant emphasis on writing out our stories before delivery. Great insight and I totally agree. I just wrote a book titled Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and I also put a significant emphasis on writing out our stories before delivery.

]]> http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/05/16/jim-flanagan-storytelling-and-writing-are-intertwined/comment-page-1/#comment-157161 Mary Beth Spann Tue, 29 May 2007 18:54:51 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=29#comment-157161 In my own teaching, children seem better equipped to come more willingly to the writing experience if they have first shared an oral storytelling experience. Aside from the points made in the podcast, I believe storytelling offers kids a language model that triggers memories and connections they long to express. Their writing then becomes an exchange of ideas, a conversation of sorts, with that of the storyteller's. In my own teaching, children seem better equipped to come more willingly to the writing experience if they have first shared an oral storytelling experience. Aside from the points made in the podcast, I believe storytelling offers kids a language model that triggers memories and connections they long to express. Their writing then becomes an exchange of ideas, a conversation of sorts, with that of the storyteller’s.

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