K-5 PROGRAMS
Residencies: 3-5 sessions, 4 class minimum.
Assembly, workshop rates vary according to size of audience. Contact Anne.

Oregon Tales Residency McKay Elementary, PDX 2009

Available through Young Audiences of Oregon/SW WA.

Public Speaking Happily Ever After

Students build public speaking skills by developing a short story to tell aloud. Anne's storytelling and learning games reinforce eye contact, voice, pacing, gesture, and use of notes. Focus: memoir, imaginative or historical.  RESIDENCY |  Grade 3 — 5

Available through Young Audiences of Oregon/SW WA.

Write Out Loud!

Sudents create an original character and draft a story using writing templates developed by Anne. Teachers can adapt the kinesthetic and aural learning strategies Anne models for their own continued use. Focus: imaginative, historical, or memoir. 
RESIDENCY  | ASSEMBLY | K — Grade 5

Telling Our Oregon Tales

Students develop a family story to tell aloud, in context of Oregon's cultural history. Builds public speaking skills, multi-cultural awareness and classroom community.
RESIDENCY  | ASSEMBLY | 3 — Grade 6.

(Anne developed this residency as a pilot with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, through Young Audiences of Oregon/SW Washington.)

Thank you for teaching us how to say something without getting embarrassed. My favorite game was eye tag....Thank you again for teaching us all these things to speak to our audience more easily. Hope you come back sometime.

4th-grade male student, Oregon Tales Residency Findley, 2009

Oregon Tales Residency, Findley Elementary 2009

 Anne describe her YA residencies. (3 minutes)

Anne also teaches storytelling for grades 2-9 through Saturday Academy. Check Calendar for details.

Recent clients: Hopkins Elem (Sherwood, OR); Stafford Elem (Tualitan OR); Ainsworth Elem (Portland, OR