Alma Luna Trinidad- Children and Fantasy

The series I am reading is The Land of Stories The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer. In this particularly adventure series, it’s a combination of two worlds, fairy tales and modern day. The main characters are Alex and Conner Bailey, two twelve year old twins, going through family issues. They are trying to stay strong through their entire situation but are alone half of the time since there mom is working long hours to pay all the bills have arise due to their father’s death. When their grandmother comes to for their birthday, they get sense of comfort and feel like everything is okay. Before, their grandmother leaves, she gives them her most treasured book, full of fairy tales. The twins discover that the book contains mysterious powers, in which they are able to escape into different worlds. There they find themselves in places full magic and wonder. Which they had only heard about when their grandmother read to them, growing up. They come eye to eye with all these characters throughout the book; there were witches, wolves, goblins and many more. As they are able to escape their own world to explore an unfamiliar one, every time it gets harder for them to go back to their reality.

The assumptions made about children are they don’t have to worry about grown-up problems or care to understand what is occurring around their surroundings. We also assume they are in their own world and that is all that matters is them. Children, who go through difficult situations, often try to find a replace to their world; one that will provide them with what they are missing in their current life situation. We can see this in the book as the twins mysterious book to escape their real world to enter one full of fantasy.

The resources available related to this series are audio books and quizzes. You could use the audio book in your classroom as a tool to introduce the series to the students and get them excited about reading. The audio incorporates music and different effect which helps children develop a more vivid scene to provoke their imagination. The can develop scenes in their minds as play them as if they were to be watching a movie. You can also benefit, for this because it allows you to observe the student and see reactions to the story. The reading quiz, I believe is one of the best mechanisms to measure student’s comprehensibility about a book. One of the most common ways to see if you understood something is by being asked questions. Which is what quizzes do, and if you promote quizzes as something beneficial in your classroom then students will mostly want to take more quizzes. You can provide different rewards based on the points student have earned. It has to more of a goal to get them motivated and for them to see some kind of accomplishment rather than a mandatory assignment.