Teaching citizenship through traditional tales - Sue Ellis

Scholastic Teacher Bookshop provides a wonderful range of titlesreflecting current issues in education as well as the most popularprimary curriculum areas. Teachers can browse through 'The Bookshop'and choose those titles that meet their particular needs and/ortake their fancy|The varied format of titles in this series enables subjects to becovered in a way that is most appropriate to the contentIn real life, choices between right and wrong are often not a simplematter. Children need to learn how to make balanced judgementbased on consideration of all the facts. Often the safest envirnmentin which to look in-depth at such issues is a fictional one.And one of the most appropriate genres of fiction for this agegroup is traditional tales. Working within the context of traditionaltales enables children to express their own opinions and exploretheir true beliefs in a fun, safe and make-believe context.This book provides thought-provoking letters relating to a numberof well-known traditional tales and around which discussion anwriting can be focused. Through using the letters children are encouragedto explore:* concepts of fairness* the nature of right and wrong* the process of making moral judgements and decisions* human nature, motivation and relationships* value, power and uses of money* the ways in which different situations can be interpreted and howtheir own views are informed by their own experiences