Tales of the Grimm Brothers
Teacher Helen Putt
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Level
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Duration
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| 3-4
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2
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2 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Close Reading
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Respond to language, meanings and ideas in different texts, relating them to personal experiences.
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| Poetic Writing
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Write on a variety of topics, shaping ideas in a number of genres, such as innovated stories, poems and plays, letters and making choices in language and form.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Children will explore choices made by writers and identify and use the common conventions of 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:
The unit is a Whole Language unit covering all major learning areas apart from Maths.
Outcomes of this unit:
By the end of this unit you will ...
- have read or listened to many traditional stories written by the Grimm Brothers.
- have read or listened to different versions of the same story.
- understand why the brothers wrote the stories down.
- know where the Grimm Brothers lived and know 2 other countries nearby.
- have helped create a Features Chart about the Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales.
- be able to sequence and write captions for more than one of the Grimm Brother's traditional stories.
- be able to sequence the pictures of some of the Grimm Brother's traditional stories.
- be able to map many of the Grimm Brother's traditional stories.
- understand the meaning of many of the words associated with the stories eg. troll, fairies, goblin, pixie, wand, magic.
- be able to identify a Grimm Brother's story by its characters, settings and plots.
- have innovated on at least one Grimm Brother's fairy tale.
- have made up a play using the features of one of the Grimm Brother's fairy tales.
- have made a paper bag mask to be used in a play.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Links for Students
Collaborative online projects:
Assessment
Assessment Task
Key indicators will be introduced and discussed with students.
The focus will be on the written work produced by the children. How well the children innovate with their stories, plays and poems will be indicators of their ability to close read.
Close reading
- Close reading of many Grimm Brothers' fairy tales.
- Listening to tapes.
- Watching videos of Grimm Brothers' fairy tales.
Poetic Writing
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Innovated stories, poems, and plays - see:
level2 (RTF 202KB)
and
level3 (RTF 205KB)
evaluation (RTF 22KB)
assessment (RTF 9KB)
Resources
- Selection of Grimm Brothers' stories from the school library.
- National Library.
- Videos.
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Journals:
1976 No.3 Pt 3 Cinderella
1989 No 1 Pt 1 Red Riding Hood.
- Resources from home (Children and Teacher).
- Ready to Read: Horrakapotchkin has The Musicians of Bremen and The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids.
- The Sweet Porridge, The Three Goats.
Websites
FOLLOW UP
With identified children...
- Re-examine at close reading, perhaps using Aesops Fables or Hans Christian Anderson as the focus.
- Ongoing incidental assessment on syllabification, alphabetical order, sequencing, etc.
