Full Title:
Fairy Tales in the Classroom: Teaching Students to Write Stories with Meaning Through Traditional Tales
This ground breaking book by renowned children’s author Veronika Charles provides teachers in the early grades with the background and practical approaches they need to maximize the potential of traditional tales with their students.
Charles outlines the contributions to our understanding of the fairy tale genre by Bettelheim, Favat, Rodari and Jung and then builds on the pioneering work of Vladimir Propp to create an easy to use symbol system which guides students to tell - orally, pictorially and in writing - their own stories based on archetypes that are fully developed in the book. Her approach has been tested in numerous classrooms with wonderful and often surprising results.
The book is heavily illustrated with full-colour examples of student work and contains appendices of stories to be read and a full set of reproducible action symbols.
Fairy Tales In The Classroom contains all the tools, suggestions and stories that teachers need to give their students life transforming experiences and a solid background for all their future writing.
Click here to see the Table of Contents,
or here to read the Foreword by Betsy Hearne.
Reviews:
"There is an impressive amount of research and information in this useful book. The teacher is provided with detailed steps to carry through the process with several examples using different types of tales. Besides the anthology of tales, Charles includes a complete set of reproducible symbols, guiding questions for creating new tales, and further notes to accompany some of the tales. This kind of practical detail can be helpful to the practitioner in implementing this technique.
Highly Recommended."
-- CM Magazine
"A wonderful resource for any teacher, this textbook would be a particular asset to those working in primary/elementary classrooms. . . What makes this book really unique is her descriptions of classroom procedures, outlining, for example, how to create an action symbol map. . . An excellent resource book which shares a great way to teach fairy tales and inspire story building in children."
Rated E (Excellent)
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Veronika Martenova Charles is an award winning children’s author. She was born in Czechoslovakia and steeped in traditional fairy tales from an early age. Her books include The Crane Girl, Necklace of Stars, Stretch, Swallow and Stare, Maiden of The Mist and The Birdman.
Betsy Hearne is a world renowned author, teacher and reviewer. Among her many publications is the folktale anthology, Beauties and The Beasts. She is past Director of the Center for Children’s Books and professor emerita in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.
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