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KOTO TALES GUIDEBOOKS FOR EDUCATORS

Teacher's Guidebook for Elizabeth's "Koto Tales" Presentations or Residencies

A useful resource before Elizabeth visits your school! This explains the instrument and gives background information on traditional Japanese culture and stories, as well as providing useful tips for pre and post presentation activities and discussions.
E-mail Elizabeth for this free resource: info at kotoworld.com.

An ESL/EFL Teachers' Guidebook

For teachers working with students learning Engish, this guidbook offers transcripts of all the stories found in the CDs "Plum Boy!" and "Hana and the Dragon" and some tips for how to put them to effective use. This can also be used as a reading tool for ELL or early readers of Engish. For listeners in Japan, short summaries of Elizabeth's version of each story are also provided in Japanese. E-mail Elizabeth for this free resource: info at kotoworld.com.