The Subject Is Story

by Hans Ostrom and Wendy Bishop

The fourteen essays that comprise The Subject Is Story offer varied and exciting invitations to students to become more aware of story - in literature, in folktales, in gossip, in their own writing and reading. The essayists encourage classroom authors and their teachers to investigate how story and storytelling function in their lives. They consider the persistence and adaptability of story as well as the way story acts as a tool for discovery and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867095342
• ISBN13: 9780867095340
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary