I didn't grow up in a religious home, but my childhood is filled with memories of my mother telling me and my sisters the story of the Great Flood. It is the perfect bedtime story — filled with ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...

Imagine bringing a guest to your family’s seder — a newcomer to the Pesach traditions. “We will tell the story of our journey from slavery to freedom,” you explain, “and along the way, we will eat ...

In WR 120 Reimagining Fairy Tales, we spend the semester reading, thinking, and writing about fairy tales from diverse perspectives, considering how these stories shape our cultural understandings of ...

Telling family stories about crazy Uncle Joe or other eccentric relatives is a favorite pastime when families gather for the holidays. But will squirming children or Instagram-obsessed teens bother to ...

Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating. From James Joyce’s Ulysses to Bridget Jones’s Diary, you’ve probably read a book that was just a modern retelling of a well-established ...

Corporate and institutional reputations can sometimes be entangled in a painful past. Some organizations rebrand for a fresh start. Others put the scars of old wounds on display — a difficult step ...

Build early literacy skills with engaging Kindergarten–Grade 2 activities focused on sequencing events, chronological order, and story retelling. Students practise beginning-middle-ending structure, ...

Discuss what myths are and their importance. Watch video clips to identify how and why three modern-day writers reinterpret myths to reflect contemporary themes and points of view. Rewrite a myth in ...

Help young learners strengthen reading comprehension and story-retelling skills with clear, structured Five-Finger Retell activities. Using short narrative passages and simple organisers, pupils ...