Power of Fairy tales and stories on literacy and language skills

In view of further publication on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, please also be aware that a comprehensive publicsummary of project results will be requested at report stage(s). Final payment provisions in the contract will be linked to theavailability of such summary.The Year 2018 was the European Year of Cultural Heritage, and in the framework of it, our goal is to share an importantcontribution in spreading European dimension, as well as encouraging awareness and promotion of Europe´s cultural heritageamong nine to thirteen – year old peers from different European countries.This project including five European schools which have cooperated and created a two- year planned activities focused ondeveloping pupils LITERACY SKILLS, stressing social inclusion of each participant, digital literacy, reading literacy as we areaware of the fact that is decreasing among students in the last years, foreign language skills, cultural diversity and creating realadvanced future thinkers.Following the SWOT surveys of each participating school and of the institutional progress plans we were comparing, weconcluded that the students need to be motivated to find imaginary worlds as the way to help them understand thebackgrounds outside their experiences and train their imaginatinary scenes in a safer space.We have created a project that involves several different learning styles - using Neil Fleming´s model of students’ learning:visual, auditory, reading/writing preference and kinesthetic- stories and storytelling occurring as main elements. This crucialidea would support the organisation and management of this project that will increase our pupils’ personal and professionalimprovement, including all the backgrounds, besides, it will widen the cooperation relating schools-families, and moreover,schools-external stakeholders.The project should be established because it would definitely bring a variety of advantages both, at the school, locally and atinternational level.The direct international collaboration will open the opportunity to the participants to spread networks, to gain usefulknowledge, to share ideas, didactic approaches and methods for creating innovative tangible results. It will definitely lead to theinternationalization of schools, development and getting new knowledge of foreign educational systems, school curricula of thecountries involved in the project by studying and using transnational tools and new teaching methods.Our project will focus on encouraging network and transnational cooperation at the partner schools.Thanks to the materials convenient for different educational styles, we will all have the possibility to learn and get new ideas butit is very important to identify our primary learning approach and to lead the teaching- learning process in such a way so thatbetter results could be achieved. By various activities the students will learn how to set learning objectives and identify optimallearning possibilities for improving their learning methods. By doing so, they will discover other cultural backgrounds and willhave the possibility of applying the new knowledge in their own contexts by writing their own stories. This will positively affecttheir motivation for learning and raising their self -confidence.Teachers will raise their awareness about the relevance of tailoring didactic materials according to various learning styles.Everyday routine makes teachers apply traditional, a bit old-fashioned methods, but due to this project they are very likely toupdate their teaching style and get more motivated to use this modern methodology on a regular basis.