Fairy Tale Facts

Designed by: Virginia P. Riddle, AC Moore

Grade Level:  Kindergarten      Subject:  Reading

1) Core Curriculum Objective: Recall, classify and compare information from pictures and stories to answer questions (such as main idea, events, characters, plot, setting).  (K-CM-4)

2) Overview: Teacher will use charts to assist students in keeping a log of information with which to compare and contrast the characters and settings of fairy tales. The students will then use props to answer key questions about story characters and settings.

3) Purpose/Essential Question: After reading a story, what questions can be answered?

4) Time Frame: five thirty-minute class periods

5) Resources/Materials:

One copy each of:

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

The Three Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Chart paper

Markers

Story props for characters and setting in four boxes - a box and set of props for each story.

Ex. (Three pigs, straw house, stick house, brick house, etc.)

6) Assessment:

Students will correctly answer questions about story characters and settings using props. Teacher will use rubric to score.

Example:

      Who was going to see her grandmother because she was sick?

      Who lived under a bridge?

      What kind of house did the first little pig live in?

Can you find all of the characters in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears?

7) Instructional Activities:

Teacher will label two charts - one for characters and one for settings.

On days one through four, the teacher will one of the four fairy tales and have students place character and setting information for the story read on the charts.

On the fifth day, teacher will show the children the props in the story boxes for each story. The teacher will then ask questions at random about the characters and settings of the stories and ask individual children to go and pick out the prop (props) that answer the question asked.