Happily Ever After

Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students

Terrell A. Young, editor

As an instructional tool, folk literature can foster literacy, promote cultural awareness, and create connections with the content areas. Yet few resources provide background about folk literature and how to use it your classroom.

Happily Ever After fills this gap with a reader-friendly articles that define folk literature and its subgenres, provide strategies for using folklore across the curriculum, and describe 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.

An IRA Book Club selection, February 2004

© 2004 | 360 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-510-9 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-510-8

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Supporting the Literacy Development of English Learners

Related ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans:

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