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From http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org

About Japan Editors’ recent lesson post is about how to integrate kamishibai performance into your curriculum. As they explain on their page: “...kamishibai can be used to teach about Japanese history, literature, and culture, but it is not limited to topics relating to Japan. Kamishibai stories have been developed to cover any topic or genre. Like a Power Point presentation or digital film, kamishibai offers a versatile format for students to publicly present almost any kind of research. As I often tell my students, any story that would make a good movie would make a good kamishibai because kamishibai are, in essence, hand-manipulated movies. One of the great strengths of kamishibai as an oral/visual storytelling form is that it provides an opportunity for students to put whatever research or reading they are doing into their own words in performance.” The complete lesson plan includes the Common Core standards that this lesson addresses.

Access the complete lesson at http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/integrating-kamishibai-performance-across-the-curriculum