Written by Veronika Martenova Charles
Foreword by Betsy Hearne.

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.

CM Magazine**** /4 - Highly Recommended.
"Charles proves that, despite the digital age and the barrage of multimedia, storytelling today is alive and healthy in classrooms as a form of literary expression. What's even more important is that she has written a dynamic and useable resource to demonstrate this."

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