Fractured Fairytales

A Reading Enrichment/Enjoyment Unit By, Brittany Hooker Theme: Fairy Tales Genre Grade Level: 1st Content Standards:
ELACC1RL1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. ELACC1RL2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. ELACC1RL3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. ELACC1RL7: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. ELACC1RL9: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories ELACC1W3: Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. ELACC1W6: With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, in collaboration with peers. ELA1R6-The student uses a variety of strategies to understand and gain meaning from grade-level text. a. Reads and listens to a variety of texts for information and pleasure. b. Makes predictions using prior knowledge. c. Asks and answers questions about essential narrative elements (e.g., beginning-middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, resolution) of a read-aloud or independently read text. l. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within texts, and compares and contrasts these elements amongtexts.

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner:

4.1.1 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth. 4.1.3 Respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres.

ISTE NETS*S Student Technology Standards:

1. Creativity and Innovation a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Communication and Collaboration a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.

d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

Essential Questions: What is a fairytale? What elements do fairytales have? How can reading be fun?

Understandings: Fairytales can be make-believe (fiction) Some fairytales originated from stories that were passed down from one generation to the next and were changed in the process

Unit skills: Students will learn about the elements/characteristics of the fairytales genre (ex: good vs. evil theme, life lessons, heroes/heroines, damsels in distress, mythical creatures or magical happenings, characters are not always human or mortals. They will use technology to showcase and display their understandings. Students will host a viewing party by performing their fractured fairytales for the kindergarten students. This will be engaging and make reading fairytales really come alive for both grade levels! The unit will be divided up (for times sake) into 5 lessons/segments as follows. The Vokis and pictures of each lesson along with samples will be shared on the media center webpage. Lesson 1: Story time The media specialist will begin with reading Who Am I? riddles and acting out various popular fairytale characters to see if the students can figure out what the unit will be about. Use an interactive KWL chart on creately.com accessing students prior knowledge (update throughout the unit). Discuss the elements/characteristics of fairytales and make an Anchor Chart. Read Sleeping Beauty See if the students can retell the Beginning, Middle and End of the story and identify the setting, characters, problem/solution, and genre characteristics.

Lesson 2: Fractured Fairytales Share the definition of a fractured fairytale. Show several examples of books on the same fairytale that were written from different points of view, or are changed slightly.

Read The Three Little Pigs Play: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs audio book. Compare the two versions using a Venn diagram.

Lesson 3: Creative Juices Explain that students will be creating their own fractured fairytale and introduction teaser. Share the Read Write Think.org Fractured Fairy Tales website they will be using to write their fairytales. Create a sample fairytale to model what they will be asked to do. Students will get in groups of 3-4 to plan their story using a fairytale story map as an aid. Writing will take place in the classroom and/or computer lab.

***Art teacher collaboration: Students will create puppets of their characters and a fairytale backdrop during their weekly special and academic center or Fun Friday time. *** Lesson 4: Web 2.0! Demonstrate Voki to create an introduction to a fairytale. Students will need to briefly explain the title of their fairytale, how a fractured fairytale is similar to and different from a traditional fairytale, and the synopsis. Students will create a Voki under the supervision and support of the teacher and media specialist. Students will create a theatre poster advertising their tales in the hallway. Students will practice acting out their fairytale during reading time (readers theatre)

Culminating Task: Raise the curtain! Students will host a viewing party by performing their fractured fairytales for the kindergarten students.