School Library Journal Review
Three Storyvalues programs - Character Education Comprehensive, Foundations of Multiculturalism and Common Ground Bullying Prevention - have been reviewed in the current edition of School Library Journal; one of the world’s largest and most highly respected review sources for educational books, media and resources.
The two remaining programs - Elements of Our Environment and Family Storyvalues – were not yet available at the time of the review, as they are now.
The excellent review features a detailed explanation of each program as well as descriptions of how Storyvalues can benefit modern educators. Here are some excepts:
“Storyvalues offers a distinctive program that allows educators to integrate multicultural folktales into the curriculum through the use of storytelling. By providing a wide-range of folktales from around the world, students and teachers are able to explore various concepts through auditory experiences and then further exploration using the related instructional content”.
“Language arts and reading teachers will appreciate the opportunity to extend these folktales into their lesson plans, while librarians can easily integrate these resources into information literacy instruction, as well as library lessons, such as how to locate specific folktales within the media center”.
“Because each package includes a bibliography of related print resources, teachers and librarians can share the list of titles with students in order to extend a particular concept by comparing similar tales or those within the same geographic region”.
Thanks to the School Library Journal for providing such a detailed, positive synopsis of our programs!
- Matthew Giffin & Cheryl Thornton
