Teaching Fairy Tales: Interactive Activities, Lesson Suggestions, & More!
Fairy tales an be taught in many ways. There is a wealth of resources for teachers, but half the battle is finding them! Here is a collection of interactives to use, lesson suggestions, and more materials to supplement your instruction. Students are motivated by authentic, real learning for real purposes. Remember to ground your activities in skills and strategies that relate to students' personal lives and a real audience!
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Fairy Tale Writing
ReadWriteThink provided an interactive for adding the plot and character traits of a traditional fairy tale. Use this to teach the structure in a fairy tale.
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Fractured Fairy Tale Writing
ReadWriteThink has provided a fill-in-the-blank interactive for evolving your own fractured fairy tale!
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My Story Maker
This is a fun way to write your own fairy tales and other stories! Pick your characters, their feelings, actions, and more!
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Mr. Terhune's Fairy Tale Unit
This teacher's blog entry outlines a great collection of resources and ideas to supplement a fairy tale unit. He uses language charts for analyzing multiple texts for common elements. I highly recommend this!
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Plot DiagramShow sequencing and story structure with this diagram! Manipulate the terms and angle of the climax to show different weighting in rising and falling action. Here's a PowerPoint to use when explaining the use of a plot diagram!
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Whootie Owl's Stories
Select your stories using three drop-down menus: Country, Type of Story, and Theme.
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ABC Teach
This website provides a wealth of downloadable worksheets to supplement any unit on fairy tales.
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Story map & Post-It's
This teacher's blog explains this good way of involving students in pre-writing. Use this activity to model before letting students write a story independently.
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Maurice's Monkeys
Here is a site with a long list of links to resources for teaching fractured fairy tales.
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Story Starters
This printable handout will be helpful as students begin to write their own, original fairy tales.
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SAG Foundation: Actors Reading Story Books
Here you'll find an archive of actors reading a variety of story books. Look for the fairy tales and multicultural stories!
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StoryNory: Audio Stories
Use StoryNory to provide students with audio recordings of books. Classic fairy tales are featured here. Download the audio books to an electronic device!
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Barnes & Noble: Online Story Time
Use this child-friendly website to find classic children's books read as audio books, such as Strega Nona and more.
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Bedtime Stories Game
This game is found on the official DVD website for Disney's Bedtime Stories movie. Fill in blanks of a mad lib inspired story, then play your custom game!
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Event Writing Checklist
Students use this to check their own progress and edit as they write.
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Writing Story Board
Use this graphic organizer to map out your own fairy tale and identify key structural elements. This display connects with the idea of "casting" characters in a story.
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Fairy Tale Organizer
Here is another graphic organizer that outlines the structural elements that compose a fairy tale.
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Movie Clip Character Chart
Use this graphic organizer to track character traits common to fairy tales. Students connect several movies with a chart of traits they can reference in writing their own fairy tale.
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Scholastic Book Wizard: Matching Your Students with Appropriate Texts
Use this Scholastic resource to search for books your students can read at their own reading level. Search for fairy tales based on several reading level measures.
Readability: Texts at Students' Reading Levels
Teachers should be aware of how challenging the vocabulary may be in a story or script that a child must read. Simply highlight the digital text or type in an excerpt from printed text on this website. It will run a readability test to report to your a good estimate of what reading level that text is appropriate for.
