A Collection of Fractured Fairy Tales - Fracturing Writing Spaces: Multimodal Storytelling Ignites Process Writing by Kimberly Lenters and Kari-Lynn Winters

A Collection of Fractured Fairy Tales

In this article in The Reading Teacher, Canadian educators Kimberly Lenters (University of Calgary) and Kari-Lynn Winters (Brock University) make the case for using “fractured” fairy tales to get intermediate-level students writing and performing imaginatively. In a sidebar, they suggest a number of fractured tales:

  • The Princess and the Pizza by M. Auch (Holiday Press, 2003)
  • Trust Me, Jack’s Beanstalk Stinks: The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk As Told by the  Giant by E.M. Braun (Picture Window, 2011)
  • Prince Cinders by B. Cole (Puffin, 1997)
  • Ruby by M. Emberley (Little Brown, 1991)
  • The Very Smart Pea and the Princess to Be by M. Grey (Dragonfly, 2011)
  • Cinder Edna by E. Jackson (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • The Wolf Who Cried Boy by B. Hartman (Putnam, 2002)
  • Once Upon a Golden Apple by J. Little and M. DeVries (Viking, 1993)
  • Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks: The Story of the Three Bears As Told by Baby Bear by N. Loewen (Picture Window, 2011)
  • Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by S. Lowell (Owlet, 2004)
  • Twice Upon a Time: Rapunzel, the One With All the Hair by W. Mass (Scholastic, 2006)
  • Cinder-Elly by F. Minters (Puffin, 1997)
  • Sleeping Bobby by M. Osborne (Antheneum, 2005)
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by J. Scieszka (Puffin, 1996)
  • The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by J. Scieszka (Puffin, 1992)
  • Splinters by K. Sylvester (Tundra, 2010)
  • The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by E. Trivizas (Margaret K. Elderry, 1997)
  • Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by M. Willems (Balzer & Gray, 2012)
  • Jack and the Meanstalk by B. Wildsmith and R. Wildsmith (Oxford University Press, 1997)

“Fracturing Writing Spaces: Multimodal Storytelling Ignites Process Writing” by Kimberly Lenters and Kari-Lynn Winters in The Reading Teacher, November 2013 (Vol. 67, #3, p. 227-237), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/TRTR.1210/abstract; the authors can be reached at k.lenters@ucalgary.ca and kwinters@brocku.ca. 

 

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