SneakerBlossom Reclaim Reading Comprehension
A couple months ago, the neighbor kids were at our house. We have some old wooden puzzles, courtesy of my mother and grandmother, who both taught elementary school. Our ten-year-old neighbor exclaimed, "Miss Lisa! There's something really bad happening in this puzzle! I think it's slavery!"
I looked. The puzzle showed the story of Hansel and Gretel. Hansel was locked in the cage while Gretel was working in the kitchen. It amazed me that this boy had never heard the story of Hansel and Gretel, so after remedying the situation, I pondered how to bring the classic fairy tales to kids in our homeschools and in the classroom.
The result is the SneakerBlossom Reclaim Reading Comprehension series.
The first book in this series,
the Workbook for Grimm's Fairy Tales is available now.
It includes 26 fairy tales with 10 comprehension questions for each. Each one should take between 5 and 15 minutes for your second to third grader to complete.
This is an easy way to bring fairy tales into your classroom without taking up more read-aloud time that you would rather use for other things. In addition, these have been "student tested" in a classroom setting of 19 second graders. The kids loved doing this activity.
