JUNE SIMMS: Story tellers use numerous tools including, theater, dance, and song.
GALE NEMEC: "Hey what's Up? You can't put us away. We have to celebrate Christmas.
Excuse me?”
And another stocking says, 'We've been waiting for eleven months.'
And another one says, 'We want to be filled with fruit and candy and toys, make girls and boys…”
Gale Nemec is also a story teller. She too was discovered by Fairfax County schools. She says her stories are like short plays and are heavy on character development.
GALE NEMEC: “If you’re doing the witch, you need to change your voice and make her sound rather, oooh, witchy, and figure out what kind of motions and how her body might be. If you’re doing a story which is perhaps an angel, I’d work on making it softer and smoother and, Oh, look at that wonderful thing.”
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Ms. Nemec says stories can also help children who have learning disabilities. She says one of her stories, about elephants, helped a child who had problems with speech and language.
GALE NEMEC: “So the mommy elephant said, ‘uh, what do you think we should do?' And the father elephant said, ‘uh, I think we should cross to the other side of the river.' Hearing that kind of thing, the child, he started to understand that he could speak. And he started participating more, and speaking more because he was hearing this storytelling going back and forth.”
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