Publications and Documentaries
Documentaries
- Magic of Performance Literacy (Documentary Video,13 minutes, Real Media)
Reading professor and performance poet Nile Stanley, and storyteller, Brett Dillingham work the magic of
performance literacy at Riverbend Elementary School, Juneau, Alaska.
- Autumn Leaves (Documentary Video, 26 minutes, Real Media)
Storyteller, Brett Dillingham does performance literacy at Stepping Stones Pupil Referral Unit, Cauderdale Council, Halifax, England.
The school is for learning and emotionally disabled students who have not succeeded in the mainstream classroom.
Watch as challenged children are transformed through storytelling and become engaged in productive language and literacy.
Books
- Raven Day, children’s book, McGraw Hill, 2002 (Contact me if you are interested in purchasing; it comes in big book and little book)
Articles
- The Heart of Performance Literacy: using the
visual portrait of a story for telling and retelling, published in English 4 – 11, a publication of the United Kingdom
Literacy Association and United Kingdom English Association, 2007
- Performance Literacy, published in The Reading Teacher, September, 2005
- Performance Literacy,
published in The Reading Teacher, September, 2005
- Performance Literacy: Storytelling With and Without Books, published in Cross-Currents: A Guide to Multicultural Books for Young People, 2005
- Reading and Writing in Book-Scarce Environments: Performance Literacy, published in the Florida Reading Quarterly, 2004
- Emilio (poem), published in The Reading Teacher, 2003
- Future Courses: A Compendium of Thought About Education, Technology, and the Future, Editor Dr. Jason Ohler, 2001