Auray, Dea Paoletta and Barbara Mariconda.
Easy Art Activities That Spark Super
Writing. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2000. This book, written by the ‘Empowering Writers’ authors, offers the teacher ways to use easy art projects as springboards for writing vivid prose with a focus on developing various parts of a narrative.
Barchers, Suzanne I.
Multicultural Folktales: Readers Theatre for Elementary Students.
Englewood, Colorado: Teacher Ideas Press, 2000. This book includes 40 Readers Theatre scripts based on folktales from around the world. Suggestions for presentation, props and delivery are also given.
Bettelheim, Bruno.
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy
Tales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. It is Bettelheim’s contention that fairy tales play a very important role in supporting and educating children as well as liberating their emotions. This book examines numerous fairy tales and demonstrates how they reveal the child subconsciously to himself/herself and how they help him/her cope with their world.
Boyles, Nancy S.
Teaching Written Response to Text: Constructing Quality Answers to
Open-Ended Comprehension Questions. Gainesville, Florida: Maupin House
Publishing, Inc., 2002. An excellent teacher resource that includes a system of scaffolds using Answer Organizers and Frames to assist students in writing short and more detailed answers to open-ended comprehension questions that are text-based.
Carlile, Vowery Dodd.
Under the Fairy Tale Tree: A Whole Language Approach to
Teaching Thinking Skills. Hawthorne, New Jersey: Educational Impressions, Inc.,
1993. A series of ten popular fairy tales are used to teach critical thinking skills to children. A short summary of each tale is followed by questions from Bloom’s Taxonomy and project ideas.
Dockray, Tracy Arah (illus.).
Grimm’s Grimmest. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997.
This book contains tales first collected by the Brothers Grimm. Many are original versions replete with violence and horror. Quite an eye-opener! The illustrations depict the horror quite vividly.
Harvey, Stephanie.
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing and Research in Grades 3-8.
An especially useful book for use in helping young students do research on dragons and other magical animals, fairies, princesses etc. Teachers can use this book to help their students explore nonfiction, read for content, organize their writing and present their findings.
Haviland, Virginia.
Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. A wonderful anthology of multicultural fairy tales suitable for reading aloud. The illustrations are more sparse but the stories are very engaging.
Martin, Justin McCory.
12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays.
New York: Scholastic Inc., 2002. This book presents fractured fairy tale versions of popular fairy tales told in readers theatre format. Included with each play is a brief history of the tale, discussion starters, writing prompts and activities for vocabulary development.
McCarthy, Tara.
Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales.
New York: Scholastic Inc.,
1992. The multicultural stories are presented in simplified format ideal to be used as ‘teach’ books. Along with each story is an objective, a summary, ways to present the story and extension activities to use with your students.
Opie, Iona and Peter.
The Classic Fairy Tales.
London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
This book presents a very interesting introduction as well as an array of classic fairy tales which can be used for read-aloud purposes.
Wolf, J. M.
Cinderella Outgrows the Glass Slipper and Other Zany Fractured Fairy Tale Plays.
New York: Scholastic Inc., 2002. Five funny fractured fairy tale plays are presented in this book. A wealth of very creative writing activities follow each play.
Zipes, Jack.
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition.
New
York: Routledge, 1999. In this book the author provides us with a sociohistorical framework (from the 16th to the 20th century) by which we can study the classical tradition of literary fairy tales in Western society. He explains the pivotal role fairy tales have played in imparting values and norms to both young and old readers.
--: (ed.).
The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales.
New York: Bantam Books, 1994. This book offers a collection of fairy tales that present a modern vision of the world with such characters as rebellious princesses and pacifistic knights. These tales challenge old-fashioned ideas while still possessing age-old themes.
