About Sue

About SueSue is on the Illinois Arts Council and Arts-in-Education Rosters.

Partial funding may be available.

Professional Affiliations

Illinois Reading Council
National Storytelling Network
Illinois Storytelling, Inc.
Northlands Storytelling Network
Fox Valley Storytelling Guild
Illinois Storytelling, Inc. Board of Directors

Education

Bachelor of Science, Sociology and Secondary Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

References

Beverly Frett
Library Media Center Director
Robert Clow Elementary School, Naperville, IL
630-428-6067 • beverly_frett@ipsd.org

Joanne Hebenstreit
2nd grade teacher, Indian Prairie School District #204
630-428-6086 • joanne_hebenstreit@ipsd.org

Lillian Sadok
Library Media Center Director, Oakton School Skokie, IL
847-859-8803 • sadokl@district65.net

Awards

Recipient, 2006 Prairie Area Reading Council Literacy Award.

Published Work

"Student Storytelling in the Classroom and Beyond"
Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom by Norfolk, Stenson and Williams
Greenwood Press, Libraries Unlimited. Expected publication date January 2009

"Literature-Based Storytelling: Read One, Tell One"
Book Links Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008

"Dancing with my Dad"
McHenry County Woman Newspaper, Nov/Dec 2006

"Enough"
Children Tell Stories, by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss. 2005
Storytelling Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005

"Enough"
Storytelling Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005

"Storytelling and State Learning Standards"
Telling Stories to Children. National Storytelling Press Publishers, 2005

“Empowering Kids to Tell Stories”
Northlands Storytelling Journal, Aug 2005

“Why Wasn’t My Story Chosen?”
Northlands Storytelling Journal, Aug 2005

"Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Storytelling Club"
Storytelling Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005