Literature Bites

Description

Fairytales by Sue Watson

It’s not easy to find moral compasses on our televisions these days but there are plenty of stories to help us understand the rules that we ought to live by. Sue Watson can help you to create programs to enable students to interrogate ethics and cultural expectations of the past and present by using traditional fairy tales. From simple comprehension to more complex analysis and composition, you can help your students create new texts that reflect very old ones, and in doing so interrogate the values of their own time. 

This session is a part of a series of free after-school workshops, where highly skilled classroom teachers demonstrate approaches to introducing good literature as a vehicle for delivering engaging language, literacy and literature with a focus on the General Capabilities of Critical and Creative Thinking and Ethical Understandings. 

You will gain; 

• Opportunities to share units of study in primary and secondary contexts
• Teachers notes associated with texts
• A collection of resources to use in the classroom.