activities for Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection

There are many activities that you can do with the book Fairy Tales Keepsake Collection.
You are sitting in your classroom and you have five minutes before the bell rings, the students are finished with their work- What am I going to do for the rest of the class? Pull out this book, select a student to come up, have them close their eyes and open the book. Whatever page they open the book to, that will be the story you read!

Another thing you can do is read one of the stories and have the students re write it in their own words, draw their own illustrations for the story or their own version of the story, or even rewrite the story changing the characters names and the sex of the characters or the setting of the story. The possibilities are endless!

You can also use this book when teaching lessons over author’s style or parts of a story. One specific example is the style called allusion. In the novel Ella Enchanted, the author alludes to the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. To teach allusion, you can have the students read Ella Enchanted then read the story Cinderella in this book. They can go back and forth between the stories and pick out the parts of Ella Enchanted that allude to Cinderella. For example, going to the balls!