FAIRYTALES: Twice Upon a Time - Teacher Page

Children love fairytales and can usually retell them from memory. This fairytale project will allow them to go from the familiar stories to a closer analysis of character traits which lead to the choices characters make. Once character choices/decisions have been identified, a direct link to the story ending can be made.

Children will read various fairytales and determine where important choices were made, if there was more than one choice, and what might have happened if a different choice had been made.

After reading and analyzing all six fairytales in a group, the children will choose one story of their liking to retell with alternate choices and endings.  Children will rewrite (retell to an adult for writing if young primary students) the chosen story and illustrate it according to their own personal edition of that fairytale.

   How do life choices affect story endings?

• What is a character trait?
• What is a character choice?
• What does choice mean to you?
• How do character traits affect story outcomes?
• How do choices that characters make affect story endings?
• How do choices that you make affect you?                       

• STATE GOAL 1:
• STATE GOAL 2
• STATE GOAL 3

Unit Prerequisites

• Basic Computer Skills

• Need to know story sequence

• Character Traits

• Listening Skills

• Retelling Skills

Access:

• Listen to six different fairytales
• Read six different fairytales
• Observe the illustrations in each story
• Study different versions of each fairytale
• Explore links of other versions on the Internet
• Review all of the stories that we have read

Interpret:

• Determine who the main character is in each story
• List what problem(s) the main character had to face
• Decide how the character’s choice determined the story ending

Produce:

• Write your own version of one fairy tale         
• Draw pictures to go along with your fairy tale
• Create a book using your pictures and your story
• Design a cover and a title page for your book

Communicate:

• Share your version with the class
• Show your pictures to the class
• Explain how your ending is different than the original version
• Present to parents on Story Night

Evaluate:

• Assess individual contributions to the group  
• Check to see if directions were followed
• Evaluate time on task

Written Checklist

Oral Checklist

Teacher Resources

http://www.quia.com/jg/218605.html

http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.activities.common.ActivityEditor?AE_rand=1136754036&AE_stateKey=4861639%2CuqggCzqrca9S%2Bg%3D%3D

Evaluation Check List

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/view.php3?id=23404

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/view.php3?id=23405

Little Red Riding Hood

http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/redridinghood.htm

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/2654/redhood.html

http://www.bakerbooks.net/facts/red_riding_hood.html

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/shepherd/fairytales/brandon/litlred.html

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/shepherd/fairytales/lauren/redhood.html

http://www.mamarocks.com/lil_red_riding_hood.htm

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/red/index.html

Three Little Pigs

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/shepherd/fairytales/jared/sixpigs.html

http://www.hiyah.com/library/three_pigs.html

http://www.shol.com/agita/pigs.htm

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~odenbach/pigs/pig2.html

http://talkback.lehman.cuny.edu/tb/threelittlepigs/3pigsbook1.html

http://www.niteowl.org/kids/3pigs.html

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/pigs/

Cinderella

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/shepherd/fairytales/kelsi/cinder.html

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/shepherd/fairytales/san/cinderl.html

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/cinder/acover.html

Jack and the Beanstalk

http://www.hiyah.com/library/beanstalk.html

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/jack/index.html

Gingerbread Boy

http://www.melaniesgraphics.com/colorpages/cpgingerboy.html

http://www.att.virtualclassroom.org/vc98/vc_86/usa/Repaying_kindness_Stories/The_Gingerbread_Boy1.html

http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant06.htm

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/goldilocks.html

http://www.dltk-kids.com/rhymes/goldilocks_story.htm

http://www.dltk-kids.com/t/rhymes/bgoldilocks1.htm

http://www.charlton.demon.co.uk/alex/three-bears/

http://kids.rrc.state.tx.us/rrccamp/3bears.html

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/3bears/

http://www.ri.net/schools/North_Smithfield/9StudentGalleries/threebears.html

http://ah_coo.tripod.com/goldilocks.htm

http://www.tased.edu.au/schools/rosettap/postman/bearsvi.html

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/goldie/acover.html

Snow White

http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/ftcyber/swhite/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/6809/snow_white.htm