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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:   Continued »

Let your Festival Quality Storytellers know you are proud of them and give them opportunities to continue to polish their stories before they appear at the Festival. A few suggestions (we're sure you can think of more):

• Feature them telling their stories on your school's morning show.

• List their names on the marquee outside the school.

• List their names in the school or PTA newsletter (and make sure you include information on the Festival so everyone can be there to cheer them on!).

• Let students tell their stories to other classes.

• Take a group to tell at a preschool or nursing home.

• Feature them in a school mini-festival.

Stage a Mini-Festival! Invite parents or other classes to your Evaluation session. This showcases for the parents what the class has been working on for the past few months. It will then provide you with an opportunity to encourage parents of children who were evaluated to be Festival Quality to continue to work with their children to polish their stories until the county-wide Festival.