Virginia Rivers, Victoria Gregor, and Amy Crane spent a year revising, updating, and expanding the Committee's manual for teaching storytelling. This manual guides novice tellers step by step through the process of turning shy and awkward children into Festival Quality Storytellers who can confidently stand in front of an audience and share a story. Manual highlights include:

• suggested lesson plans, with a timeline,

• a variety of storytelling games and activities,

• detailed instructions on coaching storytellers,

• suggested curriculum tie-ins,

• Sunshine State Standards and Hillsborough County FCAT benchmarks covered by a storytelling unit, and

• a professional bibliography of books and websites for further help in bringing storytelling into your classroom.

This manual has all the information you need to get started. The information in the manual is helpful for enhancing your curriculum with storytelling, even if you are not planning to participate in the Festival. See information above on where to find a manual.