ABSTRACT
Linda is a primary teacher in Scotland, who now works as an Education Support Officer for Learning and Teaching in her local authority. Her understanding of literacy incorporates the critical aspect of literacy, which resonates with Freire and Macedo's conceptualisation of critical literacy as 'reading the world as well as the word'. Reading and communicating with the world seems to her to be such an inclusive way to think about literacy; the fact that children are engaging in multiple and diverse language and social practices, which increasingly take place across different platforms and modes of communication can make it seem as though they are bouncing from one experience to the next. Fairy tales tend to portray limited and limiting roles for girls. Transformation is a key theme in fairy tales, and students' understanding is enhanced when they act as constructors of texts, transforming or retelling traditional fairy tales.
