Grandma, Tell Me A Story is a site for online home schooling, and for children who love to listen to stories & short fairy tales.

THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND GRANDMA, TELL ME A STORY

The age-old tradition of story telling is one of the earliest methods of teaching and inspiring children. It is one of the essential ways for helping their creative imaginations to grow. For most of human history these oral traditions have been the primary way children learned about their culture. The spoken word has been a major influence on human development.

The Shakespeare season is at the heart of our Ashland community. If we want to keep the oral traditions and an awareness of the beauty of the spoken word alive, we need to promote children’s auditory literacy from an early age with preschool literacy activities and short fairy tales online.

Madeleine Sklar has always been an active advocate for alternative methods of learning. Because of her belief in the importance of the arts in intellectual development, she created a story website to promote children’s literacy.

“As an artist and writer, I believe the most important function of the arts is to open the mind creatively and train the brain to enter the world of possibility where all forms of invention are born.”