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Folktales and Fairy Tales: We all had favorite folktales we learned when we were growing up. LEARN NC has compiled a selection of instructional resources to teach students of all ages about folktales and fairy tales.; Format: bibliography/help

Similes: "The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); By jennifer lettieri.

The Frog Prince: Compare and contrast: This lesson can be used with numerous pieces of literature, videos or cassette material to develop viewing and listening skills and the students ability to compare and contrast. One of the richest sources is in the area of fairy tales and folktales. This an especially good source if you can find a modernized version in video or cassette form to contrast with the more traditional written form. I have used the "Frog Prince" because of this factor and because it was part of the 4th grade language arts reading unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Barbara Waters.

Little Tin Soldier book: The Little Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen; Format: image/photograph

Modern folk tales: Playwriting: Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By Dayle Payne.

European shadow puppets: Students will work in cooperative groups first to read a fairy tale by a European author. Then they will make shadow puppets to use on an overhead projector. Finally, they will present their puppet shows to their class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Marsha Paisley.

The ABCs of the Three Little Pigs: This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Penny Canipe.

Fairy tales: This lesson will begin a unit on fairy tales for young learners. It will begin with assessing what first graders know about fairy tales. Children will learn about the original version of The Three Little Pigs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.

Getting in order: "Jack and the Beanstalk": The students will read "Jack and the Beanstalk" as a group and create flip books to illustrate and sequence the main events.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Leslie Robinson1.

Pigs and wolf on a map!: The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By Cherry Randall.

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.

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.

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.

Guess The Genre!: Students apply knowledge of genres to identify different genres from "reading-alouds of excerpts" from selected books representing different genres.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills); By Ann Jenkins.

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.

Story shackles: Linking students to written text: Chain your students to reading a given text critically! Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Kim Rector.

Bubba: A Cinderella story: This lesson focuses on the whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. Students explore the story Bubba, the Cowboy Prince, through rich text and interpretations of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Jennifer Fessler and Karen Wright.

Dear Peter Rabbit: Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson, and Stephanie Johnson.

Europe: Explore the culture, geography, and history of the nations of Europe with this sampling of educational resources found on LEARN NC.; Format: bibliography/help

Respecting differences: This guidance and drama unit offers students the opportunity to identify prejudices and understand how certain character traits such as tolerance, respect, and kindness affect their choice of behavior. Since this lesson addresses sensitive issues, teachers should avoid situations that could be hurtful to individuals or groups. This unit can be adapted to almost any age group or ability level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Development, Guidance, and Theater Arts Education); By Daryl Walker and Judy Peele.

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