Lessons & Units

Genre Studies: Fairy Tales 1st Grade Unit

Lessons

Lesson 1 Plot Problems Explain that fairy tales are focused around a problem that needs to be solved.Identify a problem that needs to be solved in a fairy tale.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin
Lesson 2 The Rule of Three Explain that fairy tales often have objects, characters, and events that come in groups of three.Identify objects, characters, and events that come in groups of three in fairy tales.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Lesson 3 Character Values Explain that fairy tales show a character’s values.Identify the values in a fairy tale.
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Little Pigs

Unit Extension Ideas

  • Using other fairy tales students should be expected to identify the problem, identify the objects, characters, or people in threes, and identify a character’s values.
  • Have students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. (Three Little Javelinas and The Three Little Pigs; Lon Po Po and Little Red Riding Hood; Cinderella and Prince Cinders).
  • Show a movie or see a play of a fairy tale you read in class. Students can compare and contrast the two versions.
  • Students can act out familiar fairy tales with puppets.
  • Students can write their own fairy tale, including a problem, objects, characters and people in threes, and characters that have value.
  • Students can write a new version of a familiar fairy tale.
  • Read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and have students explain in writing what the wolf’s values are in this story, as opposed to The Three Little Pigs.

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