Activity Ideas: Rewriting Nursery Rhymes and Fairytales

A teaching resource created by the HEA English Subject Centre.

Many HE courses in Literature now acknowledge the value of students writing creatively as a way of understanding more about the texts they are studying and helping them to become better critical readers. Writing imitations and parodies of a writer's style can develop and consolidate understanding of the key features of a writer's work. Nursery rhymes and fairytales can be a really enjoyable and neat way of using creative writing in this way.