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Build the 5-Beat Arc Tap the scrambled beats of a little tale into order: hook → setup → rising → turn → close. 
Coach the Delivery For a moment in a tale, pick the strongest delivery — the pause, the volume, the pacing, where the turn lands. 
Voice Duel A pass-and-play storytelling face-off — or an online room with friends. 
Adventure Map A path through all 16 kits — clear each stop, then move on. All activities
Tell the tale
Build the 5-Beat Arc Order the beats of a tale: hook → setup → rising → turn → close. Coach the Delivery Pick the strongest delivery for a moment — pause, volume, pacing, where the turn lands. Tell It Aloud Tell a story out loud, one beat at a time — hook, setup, rising, turn, close — with a gentle, optional pace ring. Nothing recorded; your own rehearsal.
Learn & practice
Story Concepts Short rounds on storytelling craft — from the hook to the refrain to where oral storytelling comes from. Mixed Practice A short round shuffling questions from the kits you have played — spaced out so it sticks. VoiceTale Sprint Race your OWN best on what you already know. Timer optional, no penalty for a miss. Trick Questions Brain-teasers with a twist — spot why the obvious answer is a trap. Progress Your levels, streak, and how each skill is coming along — saved on this device. Progress report For grown-ups — a private on-device snapshot mapped to the skill areas. Export a CSV or print.
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Story Concepts — storytelling craft, kit by kit
Kit 1: What Is Storytelling? grades gr4-5 · 25 questions Kit 2: The Hook grades gr4-5 · 25 questions Kit 3: Story Structure grades gr4-5 · 25 questions Kit 4: Setting the Scene grades gr4-5 · 25 questions Kit 5: Sensory Details grades gr5-6 · 25 questions Kit 6: Characters in a Told Tale grades gr5-6 · 25 questions Kit 7: Mood & Tone grades gr5-6 · 25 questions Kit 8: Tension & Suspense grades gr5-6 · 25 questions Kit 9: Pacing grades gr6-7 · 25 questions Kit 10: Voice & Delivery grades gr6-7 · 25 questions Kit 11: Gesture & Body Language grades gr6-7 · 25 questions Kit 12: The Surprise / Twist grades gr6-7 · 25 questions Kit 13: Audience Awareness grades gr7-8 · 25 questions Kit 14: Repetition & Refrain grades gr7-8 · 25 questions Kit 15: Oral Tradition & History grades gr7-8 · 25 questions Kit 16: Capstone: Telling a Whole Story grades gr7-8 · 25 questions
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😄 Brain break
Meet the cast — the characters who teach this
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Lean Hook / leanability — badger-tween whose upper body visibly tips forward at second 5; if hook is weak she rocks back to neutral -
Slow Pacing across the 5-beat arc — tortoise-elder with wooden hourglass; her tempo-trail stretches (slow) or bunches (fast) on purpose -
Pivot The turn at beat 4 — barn-owl-tween whose head rotates 180° at the exact moment story / teller / listener turn together -
Refrain Callback / refrain — mockingbird-tween with carved-wood phrase-token who repeats one phrase identically at the closing (same words, same shape, said again, said better) -
Hush The pause / strategic silence — soft round owl who holds a held beat of quiet right before the important word, pulling the whole circle forward -
Boom Volume + emphasis — wide-mouthed frog whose voice swells from the tiniest whisper to a big round roll; the soft pulls listeners close, the loud lands the surprise -
Mimic Character voices — sleek starling who gives each character in a told tale one small distinct voice so listeners always know who is speaking -
Flourish Gesture — tall crane whose wings paint the story in the air (wide for huge, close for tiny); the body shows what the words say -
Gaze Eye contact / reading the listeners — soft-eyed deer-fawn who tells to the faces of the circle and reads their faces back to know when to slow or hurry -
Recover Recovering when you lose your place — easygoing otter who treats a stumble as a tiny ripple: stay calm, build a bridge, carry on
Ensemble stories — the cast together