A theme page with lesson plans and materials about less well-known fairy tales for all levels.
More Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Cinderella, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, And the Three Bears
Warm-up
Songs
Vocabulary
Fantasy and Fairytale Flashcard Gamehttp://bogglesworldesl.com/fairytale_flashcards.htm
Witches, wizards, pirates, knights, dwarves, elves, and dragons. . . These cards cover the basic characters from children’s fairytales (yr 2-4)
Fairy Tales worksheet – Free ESL printable worksheets made by teachershttps://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/fairy_tales/beginner-prea1/84142
Pictionary on the most famous fairy tales.Pictionary on the most famous fairy tales. (yr 3-8)
Fantasy and Fairytale Genre Worksheetshttp://bogglesworldesl.com/fantasy_worksheets.htm
Kids make potions using bat’s blood (grape juice) or spider juice (orange juice) plus an assortment of ingredients such as frogs eggs and beetles (jelly candies usually) – Several activities with fantasy vocabulary
Lesson Plans
Fairy Tale Unit of Study Updated – The Curriculum Corner 123https://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/thecurriculumcorner123/fairy-tale-unit-of-study-updated/
This free fairy tale unit of study is a free unit of study you can add to your reading workshop. (yr 5-6)
Reading
Short Stories: Classic Fairy Taleshttp://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/Collections/ClasFair.shtml
Princes, princesses, witches and mermaids not to mention a fashion-obsessed emperor and a house made entirely of gingerbread – A reading list of well-known fairy tales in a simple format (year 6-8)
1001 nights Archives – Storynoryhttps://www.storynory.com/category/fairy-tales/1001-nights/
1001 nights were told by Scheherazade to captivate King Shahryar. They are full of action, mystery and romance. – Read and Listen (yr 7-8)
8 Most Popular Fairy Tales – Adapted For Your ESL Classroom!http://busyteacher.org/3434-8-most-popular-fairy-tales-adapted-for-your-esl.html
This worksheet contains adapted and simplified versions of the 8 most popular fairy tales. – Let retell the story (in groups) (yr 7-8)
Hans Christian Andersen Archives – Storynoryhttps://www.storynory.com/category/fairy-tales/hans-christian-andersen/
Hans Christian Andersen grew up in a Danish village. His graceful and artistic fairy tales poke fun at vanity – Read and Listen (yr 7-8)



List of Fairy Taleshttp://www.fairytales.biz/list.html
Enjoy reading public domain stories for children from our list of classic fairy tales. Click your browser back button to return to this list of famous fairy tales. (yr 8)
Listening
Fairytales: podcast online for esl: listen – read – downloadhttp://www.agendaweb.org/listening/podcast-fairytales.html
Podcast 3 Listen and read – A long list of fairy tales to listen to. Have the students retell it in groups and then write down their own version (yr 5-8)
Awesome Celebrities Reading Fairy Tales – YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEBDC2DFA1CBE74EShort, well-known stories at various levels read by celebrities
Viewing
Level 2 (yr 3-4)Level 3 (yr 5-6)
Classic Fairy Tales | Classic Fairy Taleshttp://www.classicfairytales.com/video-storiesClassic Fairy Tales are Kidoons stories, video, and class activities with classic American characters.
If Rapunzel were a guy – Bropunzel – YouTube (2:26)https://youtu.be/3JnhQX4IsYQ
We made this video to show how ridiculous it is for women to wait around to be saved by a prince. Our daughters deserve more! (yr 6-9)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs – YouTube (7:10)https://youtu.be/1Q01X8JU3GU
Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs. Or at least they think they do. But I’ll let you in on a little secret. Nobody knows the real story, because nobody has heard my side of the story. (yr 4-7)
Animated stories for children – talking books – videohttps://eduteach.es/videos/animated-stories-children.htmlTALKING BOOKS – ANIMATED STORIES . Illustrated stories for children to learn english with subtitles. Stories, fables and fairy tales with subtitles for kids audio and script . Stories for children.
Writing
Games
Quia – Famous Fairy Taleshttp://www.quia.com/quiz/4548248.html?AP_rand=2082442334Click on the photo and play the game, then click below and take the audio quiz.
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