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Resources: Bibliography by Kendall Haven
Award-Winning Author and Master Storyteller, a A senior research scientist turned award-winning author and storyteller, Kendall Haven has become a recognized expert on the structure of stories, on the process of writing, and on the use of stories in education.

This bibliography is reprinted here with his kind permission.

• Applebee, A. The Child’s Concept of Story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

• Armstrong, D. Managing by Storying Around: A New Method of Leadership. Three Rivers MI: Armstrong Inc,,1999.

• Baker, A. The Power of Story. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing Group, 1998.

• Bergman, P. “Storytelling as a Teaching Tool.” Clin Excell Nurse Pract, vol 3, p 154-157, 1999.

• Booth, D. and R. Barton. Story Works. Markham, Ontario, Canada: Pembroke Publishers, 2000.

• Bransford, J. and A. Brown, eds. How People Learn. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000

• Broesample, M. The Significance of Storytelling in the Elementary School Classroom. San Luis Obispo, CA: California State University Press, 2001.

• Davidhizar, R and G. Lonser. “Storytelling as a Teaching Technique.” Nurse Education, 28, p 217-221, 2003.

• Eder, R. “Comments on Children’s Self-Narratives.” In: U. Neisser and R. Fivusch, eds. The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative, p 180-190. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

• _________. “Education and the Mental Life of Children.” Australian Journal of Education, 35(1) p 60-74, 1991.

• Engle, S. The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood. New York: Freeman, 1995.

• Fillmore, L. and K. Snow. What Teachers Need to Know About Language. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2000.

• Golden, J. Storymaking in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms: Constructing and Interpreting Narrative Texts. New York: L Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

• Gordon, C. and P. Pearson. The Effects of Instruction in Metacomprehension and Inferencing in Children’s Comprehension Ability. Champaign-Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

• Gopnik, A. et al. The Scientist in the Crib. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.

• Hanson, Trudy. “An Oral Storytelling Approach To Teaching Writing in Primary Grades.” Storytelling, Self, Society, 1(1), p74-91, Fall, 2004.

• Holt, J. How Children Learn. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1983.

• Isbell, R., Sobol, J., et al. “The Effects of Storytelling and Story Reading on Oral Language Complexity and Story Comprehension of Young Children.” Early Childhood Education Journal, 24(5) fall, 2004.

• Isabel, R. The Effects of Two Modes of Literature Presentation on Oral Language Development of Four- and Five-Year-Old Children. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee (unpublished dissertation), 1979.

• McDrury, J and M. Alterio. Learning through Storytelling in Higher Education. London: Kogan Page, 2002.

• Mehl-Madrona, L. Coyote Wisdom: the Power of Story in Healing. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2005.

• Myers, P. “Stories from Print.” Language Arts, 67, p 824-831, 1990.

• Nelson, K. and M. Donaldson. Children’s Minds. New York: Norton, 1987.

• Orchs, E. & L. Capps. Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

• __________. “Storytelling in the Classroom: Some Theoretical Thoughts.” Storytelling World, 9, p 7-9, 1996.

• Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). What Work Requires of School. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Labor, 1991.

• Shank, R. and R. Abelson. “Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story.” In: R. Wyer, Jr., ed. Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story, p 1-85. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995.

• Sutton-Smith, B. The Folktales of Children. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

• Taylor, K. “Summary Writing by Young Children.” Reading Research Quarterly, vol 21, p 134-146, 1986.

• Texas Education Agency. Comprehension Instruction: Texas Reading Initiative. Austin, TX: Texas Education Agency, 2002.