The Beanstalk And Beyond: Developing Critical Thinking Through Fairy Tales [Paperback]

Use popular fairy tales and fairy-tale characters as springboards for learning, and help students develop problem-solving abilities and creative-writing skills. Adaptable to virtually any fairy tale and to a variety of learning environments and levels, these activities will challenge students to move beyond the simplistic study of tales to develop in-depth writing skills.JOAN M. WOLF is an elementary and middle school teacher at Valentine Hills Elementary School, Arden Hills, Minnesota