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Performance Showcase

Clow Elementary School

The Clow School Student Storytelling Club has been nationally recognized as a model program for schools across the nation in the second edition of the just-released Children Tell Stories, Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss.

Hamilton and Weiss write: "In the fall of 2001, librarian Beverly Frett and storyteller Sue Black started a storytelling club for fourth graders at Robert Clow School. They were disappointed when only four students signed up. But the success and modeling of those four students caused the group to mushroom." The Clow School Student Storytelling Club and the work done by Frett and Black is prominently included in the publication. 

Frett and Black have just begun their fifth year of storytelling club, meeting weekly with 26 fourth and fifth grade students at Clow School. Because the students they have worked with do get hooked, they also continue their work with the alumni storytellers in grades six to eight, known as the Tattle Tales.

Select a storyteller or their story to see and hear their performance at Family Reading Night in the LMC, November of 2004 or at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois in December of 2004. Videos play with Windows Media Player. A broadband connection is highly recommended.
Snake Charmer [1 MB]	Stone Soup [1 MB]	Nail Soup [.9 MB]
There was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly [1 MB]	The Stolen Sun [1 MB]	Clever Aisha  [2 MB]
Lazy Jack [2.9 MB]	The Three Sillies [2.2 MB]	The Magic Fish Hook [2.7 MB]
	Stone Soup [1.4 MB]