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Unit Summary:
This unit is designed to not only support curriculum standards but also encourage a love
of reading through the exploration of fairy tales. The unit is divided up into 4 teaching
sessions. On the first day, students will be introduced to the concept of fairytales as a
genre. The second and third sessions expose students to some nontraditional fairy tales.
The forth session, is the culminating lesson. Here students will use an interactive website
to write original fairy tales.
Materials Needed:
Books:
Rapunzel, The Wolf Who Cried Boy, Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story,
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Cinderella
Technology:
SMART Board, laptops, Internet access
Art Supplies:
Paper, markers, crayons
Improvisation Game:
Paper bag, strips of paper with the names of characters printed on them
GPS Standards:
Standard: ELA1R6
Comprehension: The student uses a variety of strategies to understand and gain meaning
from grade-level text.
Elements:
a. Reads and listens to a variety of texts for information and pleasure.
b. Makes predictions using prior knowledge.
c. Asks and answers questions about essential narrative elements (e.g., beginning-
middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, resolution) of a read-aloud or
independently read text.
l. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within texts, and compares and contrasts these
elements among texts.
Essential Questions:
1. What does a fairy tale tell us?
2. What are the characters in a fairy tale like?
3. Can I predict what might happen in a fairy tale?
4. Can reading be as fun as watching television or playing games?
Desired Understandings:
1. Fairy tales are form of reading for entertainment.
2. Characters in fairytales can be human or animal, boy or girl, magical or mortal.
3. Readers can predict the plot of fairytales.
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know…
• The parts of a fairytale
• Reading is fun!
Students will be able to…
• How to predict what might happen in the plot of a fairy tale.
• How to identify the beginning, middle, and ending of a fairy tale.
• How to retell a story through drawing.
• How to talk about the characters and lessons learned from fairy tales.
Session Two •Read the fractured fairy tale entitled The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob
Hartman.
• Discuss how this story parallels the parable of The Boy Who Cried
Wolf.
• Discuss the lesson learned from both stories.
• Discuss the concept of character. Have students identify characters
from the story.
• Role-play: Why Lying Never Works
Divide students into groups of three. Give them a scenario involving
one person telling a lie as the conflict. Have the students plan and act
out a scene that resolves the conflict.
TOTAL 40 minutes
Session Three • Read the traditional fairy tale Cinderella
• Read the fairy tale Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story
• Compare the lesson taught in each fairy tale
• Discuss the concepts of beginning, middle, and end
• Have students draw a picture of either the beginning, middle, or end of
the story. Have students discuss their picture as it relates to the plot of
the story.
TOTAL 30 minutes
Session Four • Read the fractured fairy tale The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.
• Pair students into groups of two. One group works with one laptop
computer.
• Students go to site and create their own fractured fairy tale.
• Share the funny tales with the class.
TOTAL 30 minutes