by Shonna | Jun 22, 2020 | Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Available now in print and ebook! Click here to choose your store. Excerpt: At first blush, Grimms’ fairy tales are some strange stories. Adults plot against children. A knocked-off head can be reattached with a life-giving root. And the amount of rust on a knife will...
by Shonna | Apr 15, 2020 | Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers! As an author and a homeschooling mom for the past fourteen years, I’ve learned a thing or two about getting kids to write. These workbooks are designed to not only work on writing skills, but logic as well....
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 | Oct 19, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm, Teaching Writing
Buy now in print or ebook. One thing the Grimm fairy tales do very well is create empathy for the underdog. The discharged soldier is not just out of work, but he is also extremely poor, starving, without prospects, and lying by the side of the road. The picked-on...
by Shonna | Mar 30, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge, Teaching Writing
Grimm’s fairy tales are told in omniscient POV where the “camera” is viewing everything from the outside. The result is an impersonal, objective way of storytelling. We don’t know the internal dialogue or feelings of the characters other than what we imagine them to...
