Folk and Fairy Tales 2 is a collection of entertaining short stories and poems that are stimulating, witty, charming, surprising and a satisfying reading experience for children. Each adventure is exciting, filled with cute, fun illustrations that can be colored to your child's personal preference.As mothers, aunts, nanas and grandmothers, Donna Kshir and Lee Roberts, knows reading aloud to your children is an important movement to stimulate language, build word-sound awareness, create motivation, curiosity and memory. They capture the attention of their young audience while challenging their imagination and intellect. Recommended for children 2-8 years old.

Mary Pope Osborne and Giselle Potter’s funny, magical retelling of a favorite fairy tale featuring Kate, a new and inspiring heroine. Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum’un, I smell the blood of an Englishwoman. Be she alive or be she dead, I'll grind her bones to make my bread. Readers will cheer on the resourceful, gutsy Kate as she outsmarts the famously greedy giant.

Build reading skills in class or send home in a back pocket! Reproducible favorite tales feature predictable text, rhyme, and decodable words.

Hands-on resources and instructional materials that assist teachers in elevating student learning.

Presents 17 fairy tales accompanied by illustrations to be colored.

First Published in 2000. This book offers teachers a useful and very readable text to help them select stories, poetry and non-fiction material for the primary classroom, with ideas on how to teach them. Appropriate selection criteria are discussed and suggestions are given about keeping up with a range of available texts. There is a comprehensive guide to the whole range of books appropriate for use in the Literacy Hour. Part 2 gives practical approaches, tried and tested in primary classrooms, which reflect the guidance contained in The National Curriculum Programmes of Study for English and The National Literacy Strategy. Gervase Phinn has rare gifts as a teacher, speaker, storyteller and writer, all of which skills comes together in the authoring of this book.

A one-of-a-kind teacher shares her creative ideas for helping students get the most out of their school year. Illustrations.