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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Hans Christian Andersen

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource offers the complete texts of four of Andersen's best-known fairy tales: The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Swineherd." The texts can be read online or downloaded in MP3 format. In...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Cinderella V.1 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of the fairy tale, Cinderella V.1, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Jack and the Bean Stalk (First Version) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A reader's theater script for a fairy tale, Jack and the Bean Stalk, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity. A brief glossary is provided.
Website
University of Pittsburgh

Cinderella

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sixteen different versions of the Cinderella fairy tale from around the world. Some of the countries include: Norway, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Serbia, Denmark, and Vietnam.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Searching Informational Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online lesson allows elementary students to use prior knowledge, make predictions, and perform research on the Internet. Labeled "The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character," lesson challenges students to examine print and online texts...
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Other

Hans Christian Andersen Center: Hans Christian Andersen

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Hans Christian Andersen Center provides a timetable of events relating to Hans Christian Andersen's life and a more in-depth chronology of his life. In addition, the site contains the text of Jean Hersholt's "The...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Three Little Pigs [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for James Marshall's fairy tale storybook, The Three Little Pigs, is provided on these pages. Fourteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Cinderella

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
For this lesson, students will read and retell stories of fairy tales including Cinderella. They will compare different versions of the story of Cinderella, make masks for the mask ball, and use props for costumes. They will learn songs...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Favourite Tales for the Nursery by Hans Christian Anderson

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Favourite Tales for the Nursery by Hans Christian Anderson (1890), a collection of fairy tales.
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Red Riding Hook: Alternatives to Introductions & Hooks [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a PDF offering eight alternatives for how to write engaging introductions to common fairy tales.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Silly Jelly Fish by b.h. Chamberlain

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Silly Jelly-Fish by B.H. Chamberlain (1887), a Japanese fairy tale translated into English by B.H. Chamberlain.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Princess on the Glass Hill and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Princess on the Glass Hill and Other Stories by Andrew Lang (1890) a collection of children's stories and fairy tales.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Beauty and the Beast by Constance Haslewood, Ill.

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Beauty and the Beast by Constance Haslewood, Ill. (1890), an illustrated fairy tale.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault (1890) a shaped, picture book of the fairy tale.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault (1890) an illustrated book of the fairy tale.
eBook
Other

Lancashire Grid for Learning: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Encourage independent reading with this age-old fairy tale. Read along with narrated audio or without assistance.
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper

For Students K - 1st Standards
The fairy tale Cinderella written in verse.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Light Princess by George Mac Donald

For Students K - 1st
This is the complete text of the Scottish fairy tale "The Light Princess" by George MacDonald.
Graphic
Curated OER

Fairy Tales

For Students Pre-K - 1st
fairy tales
Website
Stanford University

Solar Folklore

For Students 9th - 10th
Folktales from many cultures around the world about the sun. There is also information available about ancient astronomy.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Hansel and Gretel [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Dom DeLuise's Hansel and Gretel is provided on these pages. Twelve character roles are needed in this activity.
Primary
Other

Hca Gilead: "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Anderson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the illustrated text of "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Anderson written in 1844.
Activity
Other

Castle Technology: Compare and Contrast: A Web Quest for Grade Two

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Satire With Shrek

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The movie Shrek introduces the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics, identify satirical techniques, then create their own satirical versions of fairy tales.

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