This post contains affiliate links of products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. I love using The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone to teach the elements of a fairy tale. This book fits perfectly, especially when it comes to finding something in sets of three or seven. After reading the book, use these fractured
Fractured Fairy Tales are sure to inspire some giggles and fun when comparing them to their original fairy tale inspirations!
"7 Ways to Fracture a Fairy Tale" can help in writing & teaching fractured fairy tales and for creating a classroom anchor chart.
Ever heard of a fractured fairy tale? It’s a twist on the original story, as told from a different perspective, in modern form, or with slightly changed characters. Enjoy these zany twists on familiar tales. The Three Little Pigs The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka You think you know the […]
Teaching a unit on fairy Tales, folktales and fables was always one of my favorite times in school. We would start with traditional tales, which even back in the 1990’s not everyone knew, and if they did it was often just an wide-eyed Disney version. Then we would move on to lesser known tales, like […]
Writing fractured fairy tales is an engaging assignment for your elementary students. Take them through the steps of the writing process.
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Overview This is a fun and engaging unit focused on fractured fairy tales. Students will learn the elements of fairy tales, listen to and read various diverse fairy tales and will use their imagination to write their own. They will write a fractured version of Little Red Riding Hood, The 3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears or Cinderella. After they have written their fairy tales, students can bring their fairy tale to life by performing a puppet show or creating a animated cartoon for the class to watch. This package contains: ~ Detailed teacher notes and mini-lessons (original and distance learning version) ~ Student copy of Google Slides to complete portions of the unit (activities & writing) ~ Book lists of fractured fairy tales ~ Fractured fairy tale organizer (attached file – 11”x17”) ~ 2 Digital Writing templates (Word Doc file and Google Doc) Link ~ Student samples of fairy tales and cartoons ~ An assessment checklist ~ Ontario Curriculum Language comments (if applicable) Assessment This project can be assessed for: ~ Language (Reading, Writing and Oral) Click PREVIEW to view a Table of Contents and more details. Other related products: Fake News Writing Unit Podcast Writing Unit Myth Writing Unit Best Part of Me Language Activity Follow me on TPT or Instagram for Freebies, Flash Sales, Inspiration and More.
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Who loves a good fairy tale? I know I do and I also know that my students love them, too. There are plenty to choose from, multiple versions of them, and so many great learning opportunities wrapped up in one. So, besides simply reading and responding, what else can we use fairy tales for? Read on to see topics you could address with a simple fairy tale. 1. KEY DETAILS As with any text, fairy tales can easily be used to work on finding key details. Aren't the characters, setting, and plot in a fairy tale a lot more engaging than most other stories? Students are still practicing the skill, but are enjoying the story simultaneously. I like using graphic organizers for students to practice writing down key details in the story. I also like taking a commonly known fairy tale and shortening it (or finding an already shortened version - check out KidsGen for some shorter versions that you could read aloud, print, or adapt even further - they also include videos). Once I have a shortened version, we can then practice our close reading and answer questions for students to go back into the text to find. You know, the usual! ;) The Fairy Tale Unit on Teachers Pay Teachers includes close reads as well as graphic organizers and you can get a sample of the graphic organizers for free below. This free pack of graphic organizers will help you get started on key details with your students. Click the image to grab it. 2. STORY ELEMENTS Fairy tales are a little unique in that they have a few other elements that set them apart from other fiction. Yes, we have characters, setting, problem, and solution, but we also sometimes have "magic," and always a "happily ever after." Adding in those extra elements makes learning all of them that much more special. Hang posters throughout the room with these fairy tale elements. They will help us remember them through the recall questions, but once students are beyond that, they can use these story elements to answer higher order questions as well as create their own. The posters below are FREE on Teachers Pay Teachers. Click HERE or the image below to get your set and hang them up, ready to go in your classroom. How to Use These Posters: - hang them up and use them for student reference - read aloud parts of the story and ask students which story element it belongs with. You could also provide written cards and students can sort them as a learning center/station. - hang them up or attach them to a binder ring to place within a writing center for students to use while writing their own fairy tale (more on that later). Paired with this fun graphic organizer, students can analyze and break down fairy tales they are reading or they can use it to write their own (again, more on that later). 3. COMPARE AND CONTRAST We know that fairy tales have a lot in common, so let's compare! Using a simple venn diagram will have students using those fairy tale story elements we already learned about and thinking about what these stories have in common and what sets them apart. 4. RETELLING/SUMMARIZING We all know the kid(s) who summarize by telling you the WHOLE story without leaving out any detail, right? I can't be the only one that has seen that! Summarizing is a skill we use throughout our entire lives and we practice it starting in Kindergarten! Fairy Tales are amazing stories to use to practice this skill. There are opportunities for puppet shows for your younger grades and, what I like to call, The Ultimate Retelling Challenge for your upper grades. Students retell a story either by writing it or acting it out. Read about it on this excerpt from The Fairy Tale Unit on TpT: Here's a couple of my lovely theater students using puppets to retell a fairy tale. 5. READER'S THEATER I. Love. Reader's theater. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Fairy tales are exceptional stories to use for reader's theater because there are so many different ones, they are easily modified for any reading level, and students love them. Not only that, but Disney has helped a lot in this area, too. Odds are, most of your students have seen or at least heard of the Disney movie of Cinderella or Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, so even if they aren't great at acting out a part, they have a character they've actually SEEN to refer to. The Fairy Tale Unit on TpT has 5 reader's theater scenes as well as 5 reader's theater monologues at varying levels of reading difficulty. This is also a fun time to add in costumes (again... sucker for theater...). Here are some of my students watching another student perform a monologue. Gotta love those costumes! 6. CREATIVE WRITING Now that students know the key details of their favorite fairy tales and they know what makes a fairy tale, it is SO exciting to have students write their own. By exposing students to multiple fairy tales, they'll have an idea of varying characters and different problems and solutions. I've had some students come up with every detail brand new, but I have also had students that combined their favorite parts of various fairy tales to make a brand new mashup of sorts. Both are awesome and both are showing the creative side of your students while using this new found style in story telling. Below is a game I call "Roll a Fairy Tale." Students roll the dice and develop their story that way. There's never the "I don't know what to write," issue with this game and it is a fun addition to any writing center. They just choose a sheet (character, beginning, middle, end, finish the story, or how did this happen?), roll a die, and basically fill in the blanks. This is included in The Fairy Tale Unit on TpT. 7. CREATIVE APPLICATION We just used our fairy tale knowledge to write our own, but there are so many other opportunities for students to be creative with fairy tales. Here's a bullet list of just some of these opportunities: - For younger students, dress up in costumes for retelling purposes or have them create their own crown. - For older students, play the Creative Castle Card Game where they write about or draw a castle with combinations of various fairy tales. - For any grade level, have students discuss, write, or act out "What If..." questions, such as "What if Cinderella didn't make it back before midnight?" There are many of these included in the Fairy Tale Unit on TpT. - Read fractured fairy tales, such as The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and have students write their own taking a fairy tale and twisting it around. This is GREAT for teaching point of view! Here are some GREAT fractured fairy tales to go with your unit. I absolutely LOVE The Stinky Cheese Man. - For older students, have them write and perform their own fairy tale reader's theater or have them write a skit to have others perform. This is also really fun for those fractured fairy tales. I had a student write a monologue from the point of view of "Awake Beauty," a princess who was given the curse of never being able to fall asleep. LOVE kids' creativity! For everything you see in this post and MORE, check out The Fairy Tale Unit in my TpT shop! And definitely make sure you snag those free posters and free graphic organizers to use with all these other fun ideas for using fairy tales.
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All prices are in Canadian dollars. Total Pages: 20 pages Answer Key: Rubric only Teaching Duration: N/A File Size: 2 MB File Type: PDF Fractured Fairy Tales Project | PDF and Digital Formats: This fractured fairy tales comparison lesson engages older students because they must read both the original and fractured fairy tales. Students use a Venn diagram graphic organizer to compare and contrast each fairy tale version and then present their findings to the class. Students can complete this assignment independently, in pairs, or in groups. This resource contains both PDF and digital (Google Slides) format. Click Here To View The Preview Check Out The Bundle - 12 Genre Book Reports Resource Includes: Novel Suggestions Genre-Based Assignment Sheet Standards-Based Assessment Rubric Points-Based Assessment PDF and Digital Formats Individual PDFs for Google Classroom or other LMS providers Google Slides format for 1:1 technology classrooms Teacher Feedback "Perfect for what I needed. Keeps student interest at the end of the year." “This was a lot of fun! I was amazed at some of the twisting that my students came up with. We have used this several times. Great resource! Thanks…” “My students loved this unit. I added this resource to my unit on fairy tales. Assignment was easy for them to follow and they were engaged.” “LOVED this activity!!! Can't wait to use it again. I used it at the end of the school year while doing virtual. Kids had so much fun with it!!! Highly recommend it.” Other ELA Assignments: Book Versus Movie Comparison Analysis Project Book Flatlay Project Independent Reading Journal Assignment Novel Study Activities For Any Novel
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One of my favorite units to do with my 6th grade gifted language arts class is my month-long Fractured Fairy Tale unit. The reason I love it so much is because of how much it has blossomed over the years. It went from a simple unit to something much more complex, including a brief study of the psychology that goes into creating fairy tales. This unit is aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy. I included an overview showing the correlation for each activity. How I Use the Products: I begin the unit with studying archetypes and their presence in everything from fairy tales to even video games. I use PPT 1 to give background into this concept. I have a few practice activities that help prove the prevalence of archetypes in society and culture. Next, I give a look into Vladimir Propp's Fairy Tale archetypes and Plot Functions. *If you have extra time, consider using the new OZ movie as a supplement to reinforce Propp's ideas. I incorporated an activity using the movie into my PPT 1 After introducing archetypes, I move toward the fun concept of twisting them. Using PPT 2, I teach students how to take the archetypes we are familiar with and to fracture them in order to create humor. MY accompanying handout gives students the chance to create their own twists and fractures. The last step is applying this to our own writing. My rubric is Common Core aligned and provides explicit instructions for writing a creative fractured fairy tale. I also included a supplemental PPT (The Role of a Publisher) to help students design finished Fairy Tales Books (if you choose to take it to that final step). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Included in this Product: -Overview of Unit's correlation to Bloom's taxonomy -Archetype PPT -Sample Archetype story (to accompany PPT) -Archetype chart (to fill out with or without the movie OZ) -Fracture Fairy Tale PPT -Fracture Fairy Tale handout (to complete after PPT) -Role of Publisher PPT -Create Your Own Fairy Tale - Overview -Brainstorming Guide -Fractured Fairy Tale Rubric ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For lesson ideas, resource reviews and free downloads, visit my blog: Creative Teacher's Classroom Click here to follow me on TPT and recieve notifcations of new product postings!
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Fairy Tales STEM Blog Series What are STEM Tales? STEM Tales are a way to integrate literacy and STEM/STEAM activities for kids in first through third grade. The stories engage the kids, and as they read through the story they are seamlessly lead through the Engineering Design Process. Click any of the images below to read more about the STEM challenge, read this post about how to run a STEM tale challenge, or visit my Teachers pay Teachers shop where you can purchase one STEM tale, sets of 3, or 12 altogether. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robin Hood Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel Beauty and the Beast Jack and the Beanstalk The Ugly Duckling The 3 Billy Goats Gruff The 3 Little Pigs Snow White Little Red Riding Hood The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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