Have Gary Wittmann come to your library or school for family night, during the day for storytelling programs and workshops. He can design a program to fit your needs or use any of his multicultural stories or ghost stories to entertain and educate your students.  While the student improve their listening skill and writing skills through the listening of Gary telling of the stories.   He can come to classroom and put on mini workshop to help improve the writing skills of stories but also teach the skills of being a good storyteller to your students.  Since 1993 he has been a professional storyteller, also ten years as a college instuctor teaching speech and a motivational instructor, who received Instructor for the Year two years in the roll for this National motivation course.   So email Gary and let him call you back to see what he can do for you.