Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Brothers Grimm
Start with "The Fisherman and His Wife" and then expand criticism skills to include other Grimm's Fairy Tales. Here you'll get an art project and discussion questions and then further instruction for teaching young students literary...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom: Introduction to Narrative Structure
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about narrative plot structures by using "The Three Little Pigs" fairy tale or a similar story. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
Other
Castle Technology: Compare and Contrast: A Web Quest for Grade Two
This activity for young readers includes step-by-step teacher directions, student directions, resources, and rubrics. Students read or listen to two or more versions of a fairy tale and then work in groups to update the fairy tale to a...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Elves and the Shoemaker [Pdf]
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" is a one page, fairy tale about elves who worked all night making shoes to help the poor shoemaker. The shoemaker and his wife made clothes for the elves to thank them. It is followed by constructed-response...
abcteach
Abcteach: Book Report Forms
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Reading Within Genre [Pdf]
A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Questions or Statements?
During this instructional activity, students will review the stores of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" via a text and a rap. Using this story, students will learn the question words of who, what, where, why, when, and how.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kindness, Empathy, and Resilience Collection
This learning module includes several lessons that help promote kindness, empathy, and resilience among students.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Gingerbread Man
Four videos to use while reading the fairy tale "The Gingerbread Man."
TES Global
Blendspace: Gingerbread Man
A fourteen-part learning module with links to videos and websites with different versions of the fairy tale "The Gingerbread Man."
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Getting to Know Cendrillion: Analyzing Questions
In this BetterLesson, 2nd graders will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Variations in Plot and Setting
Although Disney's version of Cinderella is most popular in America, hundreds of versions exist across many cultures. This resource provides lessons, which examine the similarities and differences in literary elements among many versions...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Retelling Is Fun!
The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved with retelling activities, including writing a narrative and dramatic play.
Other
Story Library: Stories in a Nutshell
This site provides a collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling. Teachers can also view and use the links that contain online lesson plans and activities.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Secrets of Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" ("The Magic Flute") is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first glance, it's actually full of subversive...
Other
Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Rumplestiltskin
First graders explore several classic Grimm fairy tales. Students create a Fairy Tales Learning Log to trace the various connections and common ideas across the various tales. They begin to develop an awareness of common traits in fairy...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Greek to Me!
Through this lesson, students will research Greek theatre by looking at ancient Greek fairy tales and children's stories. Students will create their own fairytale using Moviemaker software.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Young scholars write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk
Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good activity about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, "What is money?"
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative instructional activity, students will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson plan, students will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.
TES Global
Blendspace: Goldilocks
A nine-part learning module with links to images, websites, videos, and a quiz to use while reading different versions of Goldilocks.