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Students find motivation for their reading when they work with
familiar themes from folktales and hear echoes in the ways stories are
told in many languages. In the spring of 2003, Charlotte teacher
Barbara Boal introduced her middle-school second-language learners
to variations on Cinderella. They used different versions of
Cinderella, retold by well-known authors, for their listening, reading,
talking and writing activities. This gallery features a number of their
own ‘mini-books’ and videos of their reading their books aloud, to
illustrate the kinds of materials that second-language students can
develop.
Children’s Literature Professor Anita Moss identifies a number of
picture books and novels that may be useful as alternative versions of
Cinderella:
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