"Fairy Tales" Teaching Resources :: 121

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Comparing Tales through Performance

For Teachers K - 4th

Students compare and contrast versions of The Three Little Pigs. In this fairy tale lesson, students read 3 versions of the fairy tale and dramatize them in order to analyze the similarities and differences.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

For Teachers 3rd

Third graders read a story and grow a beanstalk. In this literature and life science lesson, the class reads "Jack and the Beanstalk," then lists fairy tale elements and write a puppet show. The students plant pinto beans and observes...

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Dramatizing Tam's Slipper

For Teachers K - 3rd

Students investigate the Japanese version of the Cinderella tale. In this fairy tale lesson, students read Tam's Slipper and construct a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the tale with the American version.

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A Native American Legend

For Teachers K - 2nd

Students compare the Native American version of Cinderella to the more popular version they know. They compare legends with fairy tales and explore character traits and discuss the meaning of good character. They write a fairy tale of...

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LOOKING AT A CHARACTER

For Teachers 2nd

Second graders investigate self- and teacher-selected literature (e.g., picture books, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, poems, legends) from a variety of cultures. They re-enact and retell stories, songs, poems, plays, and other literary...

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Curiously Strong Stories

For Teachers 2nd - 6th

Students study fairy tales and how the stories that were written long ago are still relevant today in this Art and Language Arts lesson plan best suited for the elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the creation of a fairy tale and...

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The True Story

For Teachers 7th

What's your favorite fairy tale? Seventh graders rewrite their favorite fairy tale from another character's perspective rather than the one in which it is written. This lesson helps readers become familiar with the literary term point of...

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Fairy Tale Word Scramble

For Teachers 4th - 5th

In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 8 scrambled words; all pertain to fairy tales. Students decipher each word and write it correctly on the line. This is a challenging puzzle.

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GENDER EQUITY IN FAIRY TALES

For Teachers 3rd - 6th

Students identify stereotyping in fairy tales.

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Fairytale Cards

For Students 3rd - 4th

In this Fairytale Cards learning exercise, students cut out 20 cards that include a word and picture related to fairytales. Examples include dueling, castle, and damsel.

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Story Mapping: Setting Map- Rewriting Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 4th

In this setting map- rewriting fairy tales worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer. They fill in three boxes in which they describe where a story took place, when it occurred, and complete a description of the setting.

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The Rumpelstiltskin Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Why didn't Rapunzel's hair stop growing? Why did it take the fairy godmother so long to intervene in Cinderella's affairs? Young writers consider unanswered questions like these and compose news articles investigating the true...

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Cinderella Around the World

For Teachers 4th

Fourth graders compare and contrast different versions of the fairy tale of "Cinderella" around the World. They find the difference and similarities of the different versions that exist of Cinderella fairy tales.

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Adapting Literary Learning Methods with the Grimm Fairy Tales

For Teachers 6th - 10th

Learners use Grimm's tales to explore theme, thesis statement, textual analysis, and historical context.

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Wali Dad (India)

For Students 2nd - 4th

Wali Dâd tries to give away his valuables, yet greater and still greater gifts keep coming back to him in return. This is the moral learners will come to understand as they read a fun fairy tale from India. They read the passage and then...

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Descriptive Writing Using the Book Rumpelstiltskin

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

Use the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin to teach your third grade class about descriptive writing. Following a teacher read-aloud of the story, the class brainstorms a list of adjectives describing the main character. Students use this list...

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Say It Again!

For Students 5th - 6th

For this language arts worksheet, students practice using synonyms by deciphering references to well-known fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Example: Unique Individual Mortally Injured in Fall (Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall.)

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Cinderella Is A Fella

For Teachers 2nd

Second graders identify the universal theme in the Cinderella story. In this fairy tale lesson plan, 2nd graders develop their vocabularies as they read a variation of Cinderella.

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Extra Credit: It’s No Fairy Tale

For Teachers 9th - 12th

Learners discuss their knowledge of payday loans and credit cards. In this Economics lesson, students complete a read an article and Q&A activity in groups, and play a vocabulary bingo game and a quiz game on payday loans. Learners...

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