It covers a range of topics known as the 7cs including recommendations for using storytelling to enliven the curriculum ways to develop literacy and language skills models for building character techniques for learning to tell stories tips for teaching creativity and ways to build community. Title teach with story classroom connections to storytelling author margaret read macdonald jennifer macdonald whitman nathaniel forrest whitman publisher august house published 9 11 2013 isbn 978 1 939160 72 0 pages 225 genre teaching tags storytelling as a teacher of special needs and children that are challenged i have looked for any and all ideas on how to hold the attention of . Teaching with story classroom connections to storytelling by margaret read macdonald review kate quealy gainer bulletin of the center for childrens books volume 67 number 7 march 2014 p 385 review published by johns hopkins university press doi for additional information about this article pdf read download file report abuse storytelling your way into the common core and . Begin class with an interesting story but one that is relevant to the lectures focus use stories as illustrations when youre hammering through a relatively difficult concept with your class one easy way to explain it is to illustrate the concept with a story when facts and figures wont do simple narratives sometimes can