Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature with Elementary and Middle School Students
This collection defines folk literature an provides ideas for teaching it, making it not only a practical resource for classroom but also an appropriate textbook for teacher education courses.
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| Library of Congress |
Multicultural education - Activity programs - United States, Folk literature - Study and teaching (Elementary) - United States, Folk literature - Study and teaching (Middle school) - United States, Study and teaching (Elementary), Activity programs |
| NBS Text |
Education & Teaching |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade;Professional and scholarly |
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| Number of Pages |
347 pp |
| Dimensions |
Width: 175mm
Height: 251mm
Spine: 23mm |
| Weight |
748g |
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| Dewey Code |
398.2071 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Textbook
As an instructional tool, folk literature can foster literacy, promote cultural awareness, and create connections with the content areas. Yet most of the professional literature on folklore addresses either the scholarly aspects of the genre or how teachers can encourage their students to read it. Few resources exist that provide teachers with a background about folk literature and how to use it in their classrooms. Happily Ever After fills that gap by offering ideas for teaching folklore as a literary genre to children in grades K-8. Rooted in contemporary views of reading and literature-based instruction, this collection of essays defines folk literature and its subgenres, provides strategies for incorporating folklore into and across the curriculum, and describes techniques for teaching students to write their own folk stories. Contributors to the volume offer a variety of perspectives and approaches that make the book relevant to teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and administrators.
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