Young Reading 1 Kate Crackernuts

A lively retelling of a Scottish fairy tale. When Kate's mother marries a king, she grows jealous of the king's daughter and casts a spell on her, giving her the head of a sheep. Kate loves her stepsister and will do anything to help her, so together they set out to find a way to undo the curse... Part of the new series of Forgotten Fairy tales, featuring re-tellings of fairy tales with brave and brilliant heroines. An addition to the best-selling Young Reading series, with engaging and easy-to-read text written with advice from a reading expert. Gorgeous artwork, hardback book with ribbon and full colour illustrations throughout.

These 16 scripts, adapted from popular fairy tales, are written in a conversational tone that lends itself to learning and self-expression. The scripts are designed for classroom use, but can also be used with remedial reading and ESL students or taken home and practised with parents.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom. Using scientific studies and interviews, as well as personal observations from more than thirty years in schools and libraries, the authors examine learning outcomes from frequent story listening. Throughout the book, Schatt and Ryan illustrate that experiencing stories told entirely from memory transforms individuals and builds community, affecting areas such as reading comprehension, visualization, focus, flow states, empathy, attachment, and theory of mind.

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles and outwit the devil. These stories are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.