Teaching Citizenship through Traditional Tales (Scholastic Teacher Bookshop) Book

Scholastic Teacher Bookshop provides a wonderful range of titles reflecting current issues in education as well as the most popular primary curriculum areas. Teachers can browse through 'The Bookshop' and choose those titles that meet their particular needs and/or take their fancy. The varied format of titles in this series enables subjects to be covered in a way that is most appropriate to the content. In real life, choices between right and wrong are often not a simple matter. Children need to learn how to make balanced judgement based on consideration of all the facts. Often the safest environment in which to look in-depth at such issues is a fictional one. And one of the most appropriate genres of fiction for this age group is traditional tales. Working within the context of traditional tales enables children to express their own opinions and explore their true beliefs in a fun, safe and make-believe context. This book provides thought-provoking letters relating to a number of well-known traditional tales around which discussion and writing can be focused. Through using the letters children are encouraged to explore: concepts of fairness; the nature of right and wrong; the process of making moral judgments and decisions; human nature, motivation and relationships; value, power and uses of money; and, the ways in which different situations can be interpreted and how their own views are informed by their own experiences.Read More