Albert Einstein once said:
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
In
short:
- Storytelling plays an important role in Early Literacy Development.
- The stories teach children positive problem-solving skills.
- Fairy tales can help children develop emotional resiliency.
- Fairy tales give emphasis to various cross-cultural values and behaviors.
- Fairy tales teach the basics of a story.
Fairy
tales are predictable!
- They follow a similar pattern, easy for children to remember and replicate:
- Once Upon a Time
- Royalty (The king and queen…)
- Towers, Castles, Forests on my…(There in the forest stood a tower…)
- Mistreated Characters (Goldilocks, Snow White, Rapunzel, etc.)
- Villans and Heroes
- Magical Characters (Witches, Fairies, etc.)
- Evil Spells
- Acts of Bravery and Heroism
- Happy Endings
There
are many goals to target with fairy tales:
- Reading and Listening Comprehension Questions
- Story Sequencing
- Vocabulary Knowledge and Use
- Compound and Complex Sentences
- Story Grammar Elements
- Semantic Flexibility Skills (e.g., Synonyms, Antonyms, Multiple Meaning Words)
- Verbal Reasoning (Inferencing, Predicting, Negative Questions, etc.)
- Social Cognition Elements (Perspective Taking, Pragmatics, Socioemotional Vocabulary, etc.)
There
are plenty of FREEmaterials on the Teachers Pay Teachers website.
Go
to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
and register. Materials-wise, the sky is the limit!
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:fractured%20fairy%20tales%20/Price-Range/Free
Also
check the resources organized by Whitney, an SLP from South, GA
http://whitneyslp.com/fairy-tale-activities-for-speech-therapy/
http://whitneyslp.com/using-twisted-fairy-tales-in-speech-therapy/ http://whitneyslp.com/fairy-tale-books-for-speech-therapy/
