Fairy Tales
TEACHER Lisa Hall
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 4
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2
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Poetic Writing
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Write a narrative for publication in a class book of fairy tales, shaping ideas, reworking and editing texts.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Identify the common conventions and text organisation of narrative writing in the context of traditional fairy tales.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Interpersonal Speaking and Listening
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Listen and respond to their own and other students' writing. Listen and respond to a variety of traditional narrative writing.
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| Close Reading
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Read and respond to the language and meaning contained in narrative writing.
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Teacher Background Reading
TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
In this unit students will undertake the following:
- Read and retell
- Discuss and analyse
- Write and display
ADDITIONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES - LEARNING CENTRE ACTIVITIES
- Make up sequencing cards for a fairy tale of their choice or the one they have written. Other children can sequence them.
- Rewrite a well known fairy tale in their own words.
- Create a new ending to a well-known fairy tale.
Make up a
character_portrait (RTF 4KB)
of one of the main characters in a fairy tale.
This is an activity to get children to focus in on one particular character, or to make a comparison between two different characters. It can also be used to look at a character before and after an event has occurred.
Looking specifically at a character can help the children infer ideas from a text, and also helps them to understand how or why a particular character says something or acts in a certain way. It sometimes requires 'reading between the lines'.
You can do this activity in a variety of ways. You can get the children to draw the character and put the facts about the character around the outside. The children could draw a chart listing the features of a character. A comparison chart could be made, listing the similarities and differences between two characters. It may be appropriate to have before and after views of a particular character.
- Write a letter to one of the characters in a fairy tale asking them some questions about what they did and why?
- Design a wanted poster for one of the bad characters in a fairy tale.
- Write a book of the best descriptions from the fairy tales read in class and by individuals. This can be contributed to during the fairy tale unit.
- Create a story map.
- Retell a fairy tale to a small group or the class.
- Focus on a particular aspect of the structure eg. plot, setting, characters.
- Write an interview for one of the characters of a fairy tale.
- Create a puppet show of a fairy tale.
- Write a newspaper report of the events of a fairy tale eg. "Big Bad Wolf Escapes from Granny's Cottage".
- Design a new dust jacket for a fairy tale.
Links for Students
Collaborative online projects:
ASSESSMENT
- Introduce and share key indicators for writing.
- Collect narrative planning sheets for interim assessment.
- Collect finished narrative writing. Assess according to the key indicators.
self_assessment (RTF 20KB)
assessment (RTF 11KB)
RESOURCES
School journals, National library, School library books, Teacher resource, Student resource, Videos.
Electronic
