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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
By Amber Miller.
Fairy tales: Another point of view
This lesson is on comparing and contrasting (alike and different) two different versions of The Three Little Pigs. Students will use the original fairy tale The Three Little Pigs previously learned in the lesson Fairy Tales and compare it to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story gives the wolf's point of view.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Theater Arts Education)
By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.
The wolf in children's books
Students will explore the ways wolves are represented in children's stories. They will decide if the wolf is a protagonist or an antagonist in the story. They will also attempt to determine if these representations are scientifically accurate. The first in a two-part lesson.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Vanessa Olson.
Bulletin board of story elements
This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
The big, bad, red wolf: Fact and fantasy
This lesson will explore the myths and legends surrounding wolves. We will also investigate factual information about the endangered red wolf.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science)
By steven sather.
Connecting folktales and culture in North Carolina and beyond
Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Jeanne Munoz.
Using different versions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
This lesson allows the teacher to read different versions of this classic in accents indigenous to certain cultures and then provides a writing lesson for students to write their own version of "'Twas the Night" for their school!
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Dirk Robertson.
Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales
In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
By Hardin Engelhardt.

Resources on the web

Little Red Riding Hood Meets--A Golden Retriever?
In this lesson students will learn about how dogs evolved from wolves, and the similarities and differences between dogs and wolves. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
Provided by: National Geographic
Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets
This lesson plan features an example of a cumulative literary experience or “literature unit” structured around a text set made up of conceptually-related fiction and nonfiction for reading aloud and for independent reading. Students... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink