Once upon a time
Subtitle: adapting and writing fairy tales
By: Lucy Calkins, Shana Frazin, and Maggie Beattie Roberts ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Frazin, Shana, author; Roberts, Maggie Beattie, author
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780325047355
Subjects: Authorship; Fairy tales; Creative writing (Elementary education); Study and teaching (Elementary)
Notes: "Grade 3, Unit 4, narrative"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Adapt classic tales; title: Writing story adaptations that hold together; title: Storytelling, planning and drafting adaptations of fairy tales; title: Writers story-tell and act out as they draft; title: Weaving narration throught stories; title: Mirror, mirror on the wall : assessment using self-reflection; title: Goals and plans are a big deal; title: Telling stories that make readers shiver; title: Revising early and often; title: When dialogue swamps your draft, add actions; title: Painting a picture with words: revising for language; title: The long and short of it : editing for sentence variety; title: Collecting ideas for original fairy tales; title: From "This is a fairy tale about" to "Once upon a time"; title: Tethering objects to characters; title: Using descriptive language while drafting; title: Revising the magic; title: Revising for readers; title: Editing with an eye out for broken patterns; title: Happily ever after : a fairy tale celebration.