Resource Links Best Books 2010 - Professional ResourcesThis ground breaking book provides teachers in the early grades with the background and practical approaches to maximize the potential of traditi
Resource Links Best Books 2010 - Professional Resources
This ground breaking book provides teachers in the early grades with the background and practical approaches 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.
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.
Contents1 "What can I write about?"
My own journey
Using fairy tales in the classroom
2 Why Fairy Tales Are Still with Us
What are fairy tales?
What is the significance of the tales?
Mining the potential of fairy tales
3 Going through the Fairy-Tale Woods
Fairy tales are good for children
Finding the real world through the magic realm
Why children are interested in fairy tales
Fairy tale form
Exercising creativity and imagination
How children respond to stories
4 My Work in the Classroom
A classroom approach
Advantages of symbols of Propp’s actions
Complete set of symbols
Sample action-symbol maps
The classroom procedure
Expressing response through drawing
Selecting stories
5 Tale Type: The Children and the Ogre
The story "The Black Geese of Baba Yaga"
The actions in the storyline
Action-symbol map
Creating a new story
Discussion of results
Making magic
Back to the real world
6 Tale Type: The Animal Bride
The story: "The Farmer's Boy and the Orange Cat"
The actions in the story
Action-symbol map
Creating a new story
Discussion of results
7 Tale Type: Magic Objects
The story: "The Magic Soup Pot"
The actions in the story
Action-symbol map
Creating a new story
Discussion of results
Sessions with older students
Recollections
8 Expressing Response through Drawing
Same story, different interpretations
How children portray stories
Recollection through visual expression
Right-brain and left-brain modes
9 Summary: Where to Go from Here
Integration into curriculum expectations
Sample follow-up initiatives
Sample individual student stories
Follow-up ideas
10 Putting My Approach into Practice
General description of my approach
Preparation for class work with a story
Steps to follow during the activity
Some practical concerns
11 Teacher Materials
Anthology of Tales
Master Set of Symbols
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Notes to Chapters
Acknowledgements
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"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."
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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 Charlesis an award winning children's author. Her books include The Crane Girl and Maiden of The Mist.
Betsy Hearne
is a world renowned author, teacher, and reviewer. She is past Director of the Center for Children's Books and professor emerita at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champagne.
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