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Knights and Castles and Kings Galore
Fifth graders create a fairy tale story with emphasis on castles. After reading various texts featuring castles and their residents, 5th graders complete a book report project. The book report serves as a springboard to the writing...
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Folktales: Fables
Young scholars access a variety of resources on the Internet regarding folktales, fables, tall tales, and fairy tales. They read and compare/contrast the elements of fables, and complete various handouts.
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Focus: Word Processing
Sixth graders explore the basic units and prefixes of the metric system. They select a fairy tale or nursery rhyme to revise and rewrite with blanks where the metric system terminology can be inserted. Students, following given...
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Cinderella Stories
Students in a teacher education program examine motifs within a fairy tale. Using that information, they discuss how the motifs can reflect the culture of the country of origin of the fairy tale. Using the internet, they research...
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Tell It to the Judge - Persuasive Essay
Students write a persuasive essay that compares and contrasts a classic fairy tales with a fractured one. They use the writing process to complete and publish the essay.
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What a Character!
Guide your readers to explore character traits. As a class, discuss and record the traits of a commonly-known fairy tale character. Then do the same with the main character in the class novel. Finally, have learners use magazines...
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Sleeping Beauty Story Board
Have the kids choose a fairy tale and read it independently. Then model writing a conclusion for a narrative piece. They create storyboards based on the chosen plot, then write a new conclusion.
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Lesson Nine: Size and Scale
Students investigate scale as it is related to maps. In this map lesson, students read Jack and the Beanstalk by Carol North. Students then compare the setting in the story to a landscape picture map to help them study scale.
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Different Cultures, Equal Magic
Students compare two fairy tales by filling out the worksheet provided. In this comparing stories lesson plan, students compare the problem, helper, magic objects, and repetition in the fairy tales.
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Re-telling The Tale
Students retell a fairy tale by writing on the computer. In this writing lesson plan, students draft, revise, edit, and publish their retelling of the story.
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"The Golden Ball"-Drama Lesson
Students read "The Golden Ball" and discuss plot and story elements. In this drama activity, students review script vs. story writing and presentation. Students take turns reading parts of the play and discuss, make paper crowns and...
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Cinderella in Africa
Explore African folk tales! After reading the African folk tale "Mufaro's Beautiful daughters" and the American version of "Cinderella," youngsters list differences and similarities between the two. Draw a T-chart on the board, and hold...
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Goldilocks Live!!!
Study story elements with your young learners. Read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discuss the order of events by making a story panel out of butcher paper. Sentences are given as suggestions for the panel, though you may...
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Analyzing Literature via Literature Circles
Introduce literature circles with Roland Smith's novels. Your seventh graders will see the activity modeled as you read The Three Little Pigs together and apply the format to a Roland Smith novel of their choice. The lesson includes...
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Fairy Tales
Students investigate the characteristics of fairy tales and create and edit their own stories. their work is formatted into a storyboard and shared with their classmates.
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Cinderella Trilogy
Young scholars look at three different versions of the Cinderella story. In this comparative literature lesson, students read the Chinese version "Yeh-Shen", the Egyptian version "Rhodopis," and the Native American version "The Hidden...
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Cinderella
Reading fairy tales is so much fun! Learners use dramatic play to assist them in defining and expressing the main theme found in the story of Cinderella. Each group is given a story card and will create a tableau based on the main point...
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Drawing Conclusions Lesson Plans
Teachers can use drawing conclusions lesson plans to help students learn how to connect their background knowledge to text.
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Learning to Use Painting Tools to Change a Drawing
Students practice creating abstract art using computer software. In this painting instructional activity, students discuss how great fairy tale characters have the ability to transform, as do images. Students utilize a...
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Fairy Tales
Students research a variety of fairy tales on the internet. They experience their magical settings and imaginative context. Students look at the vocabulary of each tale in depth. They access a mystical atmosphere to enhance their...
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Cinderella Stories From Around the World
Fifth graders are read a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world. In groups, they complete a comparison chart for each story and how it compares to the American version. To end the lesson, they participate in a fairy tale...
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Fable Writing
Pupils listen to and discuss various fables, and identify the moral and central themes. They write their own personal fables and create illustrations to go with them.
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Cinderella: A Story Found in Many Cultures
First graders explore, discuss and examine fairy-tale and make-believe stories. They assess two different types of Cinderella stories to surface a broader look at cultural diversity. Students construct a Venn Diagram or a chart of the...
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Techno Author
Here is a great way to explore language arts by completing a computer activity with classmates. Youngsters read a fairy tale in class and analyze where the beginning, middle and end are. They create their own story using clip art and...