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Designed for young people, families, and educators, From Tails to Tales is an interactive journey into the heart of storytelling.
Featuring traditional folktales from around the world—including an animal contest in the Cherokee hills of the USA, a cheetah's despair in the Zulu land of Southern African, and a polar bear Inuit tale from Greenland—this guide invites you to read, play, and create together. It equips aspiring writers with the practical tools to build their own worlds from the ground up.
Inside, you will discover:
five international folktales paired with engaging questions to spark conversation and ideas,
games that relax, sharpen the mind and spark creativity,
writing activities to develop original characters, settings, and plots,
hands-on bookmaking projects, from animal-shaped accordions to hinged covers, to bring your stories to life.
Read the tales, play the games, and publish your work. Your next great adventure is waiting to be written.
READ What People Are Saying About This Book
This book takes a child-led approach, offering a variety of questions for discussion, games and exercises for writing, so there is something for every student. Here is a language arts curriculum focused on reading and writing, for elementary and middle school, applicable to a greater age range. Find recommendations for grammar resources on the resources page to make this a complete language arts curriculum, with activities that can be done again and again, appealing to a wide age range.
Designed for young people, families, and educators, From Tails to Tales is an interactive journey into the heart of storytelling.
Featuring traditional folktales from around the world—including an animal contest in the Cherokee hills of the USA, a cheetah's despair in the Zulu land of Southern African, and a polar bear Inuit tale from Greenland—this guide invites you to read, play, and create together. It equips aspiring writers with the practical tools to build their own worlds from the ground up.
Inside, you will discover:
five international folktales paired with engaging questions to spark conversation and ideas,
games that relax, sharpen the mind and spark creativity,
writing activities to develop original characters, settings, and plots,
hands-on bookmaking projects, from animal-shaped accordions to hinged covers, to bring your stories to life.
Read the tales, play the games, and publish your work. Your next great adventure is waiting to be written.
READ What People Are Saying About This Book
This book takes a child-led approach, offering a variety of questions for discussion, games and exercises for writing, so there is something for every student. Here is a language arts curriculum focused on reading and writing, for elementary and middle school, applicable to a greater age range. Find recommendations for grammar resources on the resources page to make this a complete language arts curriculum, with activities that can be done again and again, appealing to a wide age range.