Table of Contents

About this book

CHAPTER 1

• Personal stories we want to share
• Personal stories in everyday life
• Why are personal narratives important?
• When no stories are told
• In the rest of this book
• Storysharing® and other storytelling approaches

CHAPTER 2

• What is a story?
• Different approaches to story
• Choose your focus
• The Storysharing® definition
• Summary

CHAPTER 3

• How to develop a story
• The experience
• The feelings
• The memory
• Motivation
• The audience
• Putting the principles into practice
• Record the story

CHAPTER 4

• How to share a story
• Asking what happened and telling what happened
• Observation
• Preparation
• The Storysharing® technique
• Other techniques
• Responsive listeners
• Repeat the story

CHAPTER 5

• Storysharing® in practice
• Narrative development
• Adapting Storysharing® for different special needs
• Working with individuals
• Working with groups
• Troubleshooting

CHAPTER 6

• Assessing progress and planning intervention
• About assessment
• How to get the child to tell a story
• What to assess
• Developing the different aspects involved in telling a story

CHAPTER 7

• Developing Storysharing®
• At home
• Between home and school
• At school
• How Storysharing® relates to other forms of narrative

APPENDICES

• Theoretical background and research
• Cognitive approaches: the story grammar model
• Social process: the social constructionist model
• Examples of story records
• Assessment protocol
• Examples of stories told in different ways
• A story told by a group of children
• A story told by an adult supporting a child
• A story told by mainstream and special school children working together.
• Storysharing® profile
• Storysharing® short profile