Fairy+Tales

Here are some ideas from LM_NET:


 * The Fairy Tales I have read that I think the kids have enjoyed the most are:
 * Puss and Boots**
 * King Midas **
 * The Rough Faced Girl**
 * Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella story from China **
 * Hansel and Gretel **


 * I worked with my fourth graders on literary elements, specifically "**point of view**." It helped to use familiar fairy tales. POV was new for them so introducing an unfamiliar tale would have made it more complicated. I used all the familiar ones: ** Cinderella , Three Little PIgs , Little Red Riding Hood , Goldilocks**. I used ** Jack and the Beanstalk ** the second week but that was harder because they were less familiar with it. We took all these stories and read the fractured tale from a different POV, worked on changing the POV as a class, and finally they worked in groups to write their own fractured tale.


 * **Lon Po Po by Ed Young** and **versions of Cinderella.****﻿**


 * I usually do a unit on **fairy tales & fractured fairy tales** together.


 * I read ** Sleeping Beauty, Rumplestilskin** and **King Midas**.


 * **The Funny Little Woman**-Caldecott winner; ** The Emperor and the Kite; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks **/ Paterson; Marshall-any title because of the quirkiness; **Wiesner's THree LIttle Pigs** to compare to others; **Susan Jeffers' SNow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; Rusulka** to combat any Disney version of **The LIttle Mermaid **.


 * I've found the most interest in fairy tales that don't have a Disney movie associated with it. I try to read my kids ** The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes **, a few titles from Arabian Nights , and what you may consider to be old classics.


 * I actually like to start with Jon Scieszka 's **The Stinky Cheese Man ** when I do my fairy tale unit. As we begin each fractured version, I ask them to tell me the story as they know it and then we compare and contrast afterwards. Consistently, they don't know **Rumpelstiltskin** - I wonder why?


 * My experience is that some kids know NONE of the fairy tales! I was amazed when I read **Three Little Pigs** to my K's one year that some of them had never heard it before.


 * //**Snoring Beauty**// by Bruce Hale is by far the best read-aloud book I have ever read to the kids. It's good for twisted fairytales, but it is a fairy tale in itself, too.