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Coming July 2025: FAIRY TALE CAMP — Free!
If you enjoy the way stories are taught on The Literary Life Podcast (currently #1 in homeschool podcasts), or are tired of modern, psychological analysis of books ― or worksheet approaches to literature that suck the life right out of … Continue reading →
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Tagged brothers grimm, fairy tales, literary tradition, reading metaphorically, stories will save the world, story, story form
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To Be Enchanted By Story
I’ve had the wonderful experience these past 10 weeks of reading story to four-year-olds, taking things a little deeper with my 6-9 year old group, with telling back what we saw and what it reminded us of, and then with … Continue reading →
Posted in Story, Story, Rhyme, & Song, Teaching
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Tagged brothers grimm, fairy tales, folk tales, images, medieval cosmology, metaphors, northrop frye, reading metaphorically, stories will save the world, stratford caldecott, universal story
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