Looking for Drama Instructors to Work with Children to Record Children’s Stories
by William Rubel, Posted in Stone Soup at Home Teachers
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When a new issue of Stone Soup is published, editor Gerry Mandel selects a story to feature on our website and asks the author to record a reading of the story. Over the years, we have built up a large archive of stories read by Stone Soup authors.
We are now thinking we would like to record stories we haven’t previously recorded. We are looking for drama teachers, or anyone with recording experience who works with children, to work with us to record children reading Stone Soup stories for posting on this website and on iTunes. We may even produce a CD. We have been publishing Stone Soup for thirty-seven years and have a wealth of material by children up to age thirteen to work with.
If you might be interested in this project, please write to me, william@williamrubel.com. I am thinking that making recordings of children might entail a collaboration between a classroom teacher, a drama teacher, and a radio presenter at a community college or university radio station who could do the actual recording, and possibly the editing as well.
I look forward to hearing from you.
William Rubel
Co-Editor of Stone Soup
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I’m a drama teacher and forensics coach in Tampa, Fl. I would like to hear more about this project.
Comment by Candace Newman on March 5, 2010.
dramatherapist: working with children . woukd like some more info please
Comment by anne m on March 10, 2010.
Hi,
I am a vocal, voice over and dialect coach and the owner of Vocal Image in Burbank, California. Your project sounds great. Good Luck. Let me know what you need.
Comment by Carolyn Fallin on March 22, 2010.
Hi!
This sounds right-up-my-alley! I’m a singer-songwriter with over 20 CD releases for family audiences… including musical versions of many classic children’s stories. I’d be delighted to hear more about the project. I work with a wonderful sound studio in Madison, WI.
Comment by Ken Lonnquist on March 26, 2010.
Hi =] So I can see i’m not qualified in the same way as others, but I am sixteen years old and I run a program here in Calfornia aimed at encouraging young kids. I’ve found that young children relate more to a less mature voice when listening to literature because it feels less like work. Well that’s my idea anyway. I’d love to help out so feel free to contact me.
Comment by Nimrit Sidhu on April 20, 2010.
I need to clarify that we are looking for kids to read the stories.
Comment by admin on April 22, 2010.
I am a Drama Therapist and have been working for four years with a gifted high school senior who has a wide range of voices, and is on the Autistic Spectrum. He is been invovled in the drama program throughout his years in high school, as well as Berkeley Reperatory Theatre. He is a senior at Skyline High School in Oakland California,and has been accepted at California State University/East Bay in the fall.
I believe this would be an amazing way to channel his creative energy.
Looking Forward to hearing from you soon,
Heidi Neipris Wexler
Comment by Heidi Wexler on May 1, 2010.
Hi,
I am a vocal and voice over so I kindly ask you to be part of this great project even for free.
thanks
Comment by ghada on May 8, 2010.
I am a 6th grade teacher in Costa Mesa, CA with a background in theatre and television, including writing/directing/producing two television series for the local Costa Mesa cable station. What you’re describing sounds very intriguing. Please let me know how I might become involved.
Comment by Kathryn Dickinson on August 11, 2010.
There are many high quality recording programs, eg Audacity, that are really easy to use on your own laptop or desktop. You can export your recordings as MP3s for the web or WAVs for CD. Not hard to learn to do yourself.
Comment by RTG8 on August 14, 2010.