by Shonna | Feb 25, 2020 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
February 26 is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, often affectionately shortened to Fairy Tale Day. Here are some fun ways to celebrate telling fairy tales: 1. Tell a Fairy Tale through Group Storytelling Story Cube Prompts Use Story Cubes as prompts to retell a fairy...
by Shonna | Feb 22, 2020 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
All of last year I read through Grimms’ Fairy Tales and analyzed them from a writer’s perspective. #GRIMMread2019 Fifty-two blogs later, I’m revisiting my thoughts, organizing them, and collecting them into a book on how to write a fairy tale. This...
by Shonna | Dec 26, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
It’s the final week in our #GRIMMread2019 challenge! Wow, we’ve read a lot of stories: two hundred and ten fairy tales; four a week until these last few weeks when we read five. There is still a bonus set of stories that I’ll talk about later (the deleted stories) but...
by Shonna | Dec 20, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
I’m surprised there are not more examples of royals in disguise from the Grimm stories. Specifically, I’m talking about royals who dress like commoners for a twist reveal at the end. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Poverty and Humility Lead to Heaven Types of royals in...
by Shonna | Dec 16, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
We are winding down the #GRIMMread2019 challenge. This week we have five stories instead of the usual four. This takes us to number 200, and the end of the main section of stories. The final two weeks we’re reading the stories grouped together as “the children’s...
