For Black History Month 2024, SPI shares a project that asks students to create their own picture book, using legendary artist, writer, poet, anthologist, storyteller, and folklorist Ashley Bryan’s Freedom Over Me as a template.
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Maine College Circle and Story Preservation Initiative have come together to develop a highly collaborative pilot project for aspiring writers living in rural communities in Maine, grades 3-6.
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Students listen to plant biologist, professor, researcher, and author (“What a Plant Knows”) Danny Chamovitz’s SPI recording and create their own nature notebook detailing the seasonal cycle of trees.
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Putting a twist on Women’s History Month, SPI this year challenges students to create an oral history of a woman who they admire.
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SPI’s K-3 Storytelling Learning Lab introduces young people to timeless tales designed to instill in them a love of story, which translates to a love of language and reading!
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This Native American Heritage Month, introduce young ones to the legendary Dovie Thomason.
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SPI encourages kids to draw characters or scenes from stories on our K-3 Learning Lab site, and we’d love to see yours!
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SPI’s ASL project was developed for young deaf and hard-of-hearing children to promote language acquisition and foster ASL proficiency as well as social and emotional learning. Great for all ages.
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SPI went to Little Cranberry Island, Maine to record the personal narrative of the legendary artist, writer, poet, anthologist, storyteller, and scholar of African and African-American folklore, Ashley Bryan.
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Story Preservation Initiative adds new stories to its K-3 Storytelling Learning Lab project for pre-schoolers and kindergarteners.
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SPI’s K-3 Storytelling Project Blends Spoken-Word Stories with Sign Language, Captioning, and Art for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children.
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