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Handbook for Storytellers - A detailed guide and collection of tips especially for librarians and those working with children, also quoting from studies and academic works on storytelling. Sections include: What Is Storytelling? Why Should I Do It?, Origins and Purposes of Storytelling, Choosing Your Story, Learning Your Story, Voice & Gestures, Telling Your Story, Record Keeping, References and Bibliography.

Learn About Storytelling - Homeschool Learning Network - A series of graded lesson plans to teach children storytelling. Very well organized and with lots of helpful resources, including booklists. The content is fairly simple, but includes formatted printouts, and each lesson includes a selection of good websites. The lessons are: Choosing a Story to Tell; My Oral History; Preparing Your Story; Practice Inflection with your Dog, and Other Exercises; Organize a Storytelling Event; Listen to Other Storytellers; Story Rewrite Challenge.

Storytelling at About.com  -  This searches the huge About.com site for articles and links mentioning storytelling. At the top you'll also see a number of directory categories to explore. About.com is a regularly updated and practical reference site.

Guidelines for Teaching with Folk Tales  -  An extensive list at the pros and cons of Teaching with Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Fables, Ballads, and Other Short Works of Folklore. The rest of this study guide, which focuses on Appalachian folktales but can be applied to other cultures, has many useful resources on Activities for the Study of Folktales (lots of practical suggestions and games for kids etc.), Bibliography of Appalachian Folktales, Resources on Appalachian Dialects, Links to Online Texts, Unit Lesson Plan on Mountain Humor in Folktales and Other Media.

Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Links for Storytellers -Probably the biggest collection of storytelling resources on the web, annotated and categorised for easy reference. 

Aesop's Fables - A complete collection of aesop's fables

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