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Learning task 3: Further activities

  • Students complete these activity worksheets about the characters in the Grimm's tales they have read:
  • Make character paper bag masks to use to present a Grimm's play to the class. Discuss the text features and layout of a play. Shared or independent writing of a play based on a fairy story.

  • Innovate a Grimm's fairy tale. Talk about "What if...?" eg. "What if Cinderella didn't go home as the clock struck midnight?". Discuss with students fairy tales that could be innovated. List students' ideas. Teacher modelling and shared writing of innovated fairy tale.

    Innovation:

    Innovating on text gives students further opportunities to experience the patterns and rhymes of text they have shared. These texts should be accessible to students in either book form or on a wall at a height where students can easily reread them.

    Students can innovate on the language of a particular book, retelling a story in a new way by keeping to the original structures, but inserting new vocabulary. This kind of writing - partly following a model and partly creating something new - can be a useful step towards understanding how written language works and how people use words.

    Material from The Learner as a Reader is reproduced by permission of the publishers Learning Media Limited on behalf of Ministry of Education, P O Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand, © Crown, 1996.

  • Students brainstorm and web ideas for their story then draft, edit, proofread, publish and illustrate.

    For customisable student check-lists, see these Assessment Resource Bank resources:

    Students could publish this innovated story in a book format, designing a cover for the book. Refer to Exploring Language: Picture Books . Encourage students to include a blurb about the author, and a synopsis of the story.

  • In small groups or with a partner, share the innovated story.
  • Teacher models writing a review. Discuss with the class "What does the reader of a review want to know?". List their responses. Discuss the language features of a review. Write a review based on one of the Grimm's fairy tales. Students write a review about one of the fairy tales they have read. Share with a partner. Encourage students to give oral feedback.

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