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Read Write Think: Fairy Tales From Life Lesson PlanRead Write Think: Fairy Tales From Life Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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1240L
Lesson Plan

Read Write Think: Fairy Tales From Life

Curated by ACT

A guideline for helping students to write their own fairy tales. This is a fun activity that will help students to analyze a literary style and follow a pattern.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

character analysis, fairy tales, reading, cinderella, goldilocks and the three bears, hans christian andersen, the ugly duckling

Additional Tags

children's rhymes, common elements, compare, fairy tale characteristic, fairy tale elements, fairytales, good and evil, good vs. evil, hero, heroine, kids stories, re-telling, reading skills, writing activity, beauty and the beast, emperor's new suit, grimm brothers, hans christian anderson, mufaro'sbeautiful daughters, ncte, rapunzel, readwritethink, red riding hood, russian fairytales, sleeping beauty, snow white, the cinder maid, the fisherman and his wife, the fisherman and the fish, the three billy goats gruff, tom thumb, ugly duckling, fairy tale, fairy tale unit, finist the falcon, frog king, frog princess, the humpbacked pony

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.4.9

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