2. Possible CCSS Standards
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1- Ask and answer questions
such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to
demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2- Recount stories, including
fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine
their central message, lesson, or moral.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5- Describe the overall
structures of a story, including describing how the
beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes
the action.
From: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/2/
3. Why Teach Fairytales with
Technology?
• Fairytales can be seen, as well as
heard.
• Grants access to fairytales from
multiple cultures.
• Allows differentiation for diverse
learning styles.
• A commonly studied topic, so many
resources are available for teachers
and students through technology.
4. Reliability of Sources
• Sources were chosen from reputable
sources, such as literacy or children’s
educational organizations, and accredited
teaching blogs/websites
• All sources were read thoroughly to
ensure that the information/resources
presented were current, academically
oriented, and age-appropriate.
5. Internet Images
• Images and videos from the internet
help students to see the fairy tales, as
well as hear them, and represent the
stories in a visual way.
• The next three slides will provide
examples of how images from blogs,
Youtube videos, and podcasts can be
used to help teach fairy tales.
6. Blog: WE are TEACHERS
http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2014/08/11/fairy-
tales-gone-wild-10-creative-ways-to-teach-fairy-tales
7. Podcast: “The Palace of Stories”
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kids-stories-fairy-tales-
palace/id424129434?mt=2
9. Internet Resources for
Teaching Fairytales
1. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroo
m-resources/
The ReadWriteThink Organization is partnered with the
International Reading Association, which promotes
childrens’ reading and literacy. Their website provides
interactive activities and resources for children that
could be used to help teach the topic of fairytales,
including an activity to design a book cover, or write a
short poem for a favorite fairytale or fairytale message.
10. 2. http://readingisfundamental.org/us/litera
cy-resources/activities.htm
Reading is Fundamental is the largest nonprofit
organization for children’s literacy in the United States.
Their website provides literacy activities for students and
teachers that could be used when teaching fairytales,
including activities for drama and the performance of
fairytales, and writing exercises in which the students
become story critics. Another activity allows students to
create a reading passport, in which they could keep track
of the different countries that fairytales come from.
11. 3. http://www.reachoutandread.org/
The Reach Out and Read Organization is a nonprofit
organization founded by medical professionals to
promote early literacy. Their website provides
resources for the classroom, such as audiobooks and
age-appropriate book choices. In addition, this website
contains great reading resources for parents that can
be sent home during the fairytale unit in order to allow
parents to participate in their children’s learning.
13. Teaching Materials
Fairy Tale App (Free, but purchases can be
made in the app for a variety of fairy tales)
Click picture of app to be redirected to app web page.
17. Subject-Specific Website
http://www.magickeys.com/books/links.html
This site provides a great resources for children’s literature.
The links connect to online children’s books in many different
genres, including the fairytale genre. The site is easy to
search and could be used to provide children with visual and
auditory versions of appropriate stories.
18. Supporting Websites
• http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
This online library of folklore and fairytales from the
University of Pittsburg allows teachers and students to
search for fairytales alphabetically, and would be a great
resource for teachers to direct students to use for
independent reading/research of fairytales.
• http://www.sac.sa.edu.au/Library/Library/Primary
/literacy/fairytales.htm
This website provides links to multiple interactive fairytale
resources in which students can read interactive texts that
include games, quizzes, sorting activities, and read-alouds.
19. Web 2.0: Collaboration
http://www.pixton.com/
Pixton.com allows students
to create comic strips that
they can work on together
with classmates, and then
share with other classmates
and school groups within the
website. Students may need
teacher assistance, but can
use the basic version to
create comics about
fairytales and fairytale
elements.
This teaching blog provides teachers with advice from other teachers about how to creatively teach fairytales in the classroom. Teachers are able to interact with each other and share teaching tips for use of the topic with children. Teachers can use this blog for inspiration, or assistance with lesson planning that aligns with the core standards while remaining engaging and age-appropriate for children.
Provided by Apple, this podcast provides audible fairytales for students, and teacher can search for fairytales with specific messages or morals in order to teach certain lessons or skills. This podcast also provides read-aloud fairytales for children who are auditory learners and struggling or emerging readers to listen to, rather than read, or follow along with. If children are given the auditory version, they may be able to better understand the fairy tales than they would if they were simply reading them.
Students can watch the classic fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” in order to have a visual version of the story as well as an auditory version. By using videos such as this, which act the fairytales out for the children, I as a teacher am able to reach children with different learning styles, while also meeting core standards. Students can read along with the video from story sheets, and these videos can be used to help students understand the story in order to answer questions about it, or understand the order of the events in the story.
This diagram would give students a visual way to review the elements of stories, which are the same elements that would be found in fairy tales. As my students are in second grade, the pictures in the diagram would help the students to make meaning out of the words underneath, and would give students a visual representation for fairytale story elements. The diagram could also be used as a reference to help students remember how to find the key elements of fairytales and stories, and how to answer the key questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how.
This app allows students to interact with fairytales through an iPad or iPhone. The app is free, but in-app purchases of extra fairytales cost $1.99 each. The app lets students also be the creators of their own fairytales, and illustrate them with pictures and clip-art. This app would be an excellent addition to a writing lesson for all students, but especially students who may need a little extra prompting or help while writing.
While a crossword puzzle may be a bit challenging for second graders, a teacher could use this material on a Smartboard or projector, and do the crossword puzzle together with the class in order to aid with spelling and placement. The clues and answers in the crossword puzzle are elements of fairytales that the class would have learned about, so the crossword is great reinforcement or review.
This introduction sheet is provided by Scholastic and is a great, age-appropriate way to introduce the topic of fairytales to students. The teacher could give each student a copy and read the sheet aloud in order to spark a discussion about what the class will be talking about while learning about fairytales. While students are likely familiar with fairytales by second grade, they most likely do not know that they come from different countries or that each country has its own fairytales, and they may not know the lessons behind fairytales. Therefore, this introduction to the topic provides a great way to get students thinking before they begin to go in depth.
This worksheet allows students to take a survey of their classes favorite fairytales. The worksheet can either be used individually, allowing students to walk around and interact to ask their classmates questions and record data, or as a whole class, with the teacher instructing students to come up and place a check mark next to their favorite fairytale. As second graders are beginning to work on graphing, this data can be used to create a pictograph or a bar graph of the class’ favorite fairytales.