Fairy Tales, in General

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

Tar Heel Shared Reader | Fairy Tales

Tar Heel Shared Reader | Fairy Taleshttp://tarheelreader.org/2012/09/29/fairy-tales-3/A short e-book explaining what special stories fairy tales are (yr 2-4)

 

Songs

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Debbie and Friends - YouTube

Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Debbie and Friends – YouTube (5:52)https://youtu.be/UaulRHrJGeUThese are the classic tales and stories that we’ve turned into songs for children. Join Goldilocks on her adventure. Have fun singing and dancing along.

 

Vocabulary

Fantasy and Fairytale Flashcard Game

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)

Fantasy and Fairytale Genre Worksheets

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 123

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)

Who Was Hans Christian Andersen? | Wonderopolis

Who Was Hans Christian Andersen? | Wonderopolishttps://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-was-hans-christian-andersenIf you love fairy tales, you’re going to love today’s Wonder of the Day! Join us as we spend some time with little mermaids and ugly ducklings! (yr 7-9)

 

Reading

Short Stories: Classic Fairy Tales

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 - Storynory

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!

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 - Storynory

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)

Ririro | Imagination over knowledge

Ririro | Imagination over knowledgehttps://ririro.com/Imagination over knowledge Beatrix Potter The tale of Peter Rabbit Brothers Grimm Little Red Riding Hood A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Unknown writer The Little… (yr 6-8)

List of Fairy Tales

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)

Short Stories for Children

Short Stories for Childrenhttps://americanliterature.com/short-stories-for-childrenPlease enjoy these great stories, fairy-tales, fables, and nursery rhymes for children. They help kids learn to read and make excellent bedtime stories! We have hundreds of great children’s stories for you to share.

 

Listening

Fairytales: podcast online for esl: listen - read - download

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)

BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What's in a fairy tale?

BBC Learning English – 6 Minute English / What’s in a fairy tale?http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6-minute-english/ep-160317Sophie and Neil talk about traditional fairy tales for the adult market and teach you some magical vocabulary (yr 8-9)

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Free at Loyal Books

Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm – Free at Loyal Bookshttp://www.loyalbooks.com/book/fairy-tales-by-the-brothers-grimmSixty-two stories are contained in this volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

 

Viewing

Level1 Stories - Fairy tale Compilation | 26 minutes English Stories (Reading Books) - YouTube

Level1 Stories – Fairy tale Compilation | 26 minutes English Stories (Reading Books) – YouTube, 2-3 min each (26:34)https://youtu.be/hMNwd57F1gIClick on the link below to see each video in this compilation video. Each video, that has sound & mute version, is accompanied by English subtitles.  (yr 2-3)
Level 2 (yr 3-4)Level 3 (yr 5-6)

Little Big Mouse | PBS LearningMedia

Little Big Mouse | PBS LearningMedia (4:19)https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/btl07.rla.early.aloud.mouse/little-big-mouse/In this video segment from Between the Lions, Cleo reads one of Aesop’s fables, The Lion and the Mouse,

Classic Fairy Tales | Classic Fairy Tales

Classic Fairy Tales | Classic Fairy Taleshttp://www.classicfairytales.com/video-storiesClassic Fairy Tales are Kidoons stories, video, and class activities with classic American characters.

Magic English DVD 26 - Fairyland - YouTube

Magic English DVD 26 – Fairyland – YouTube (27:00)https://youtu.be/mozhByn_AKgDisney Magic English Educational Full Sets. An educational potpourri of Disney’s fairy tales (yr 2-4)

If Rapunzel were a guy - Bropunzel - YouTube

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

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)

Sand Animation Presents - Alice In Wonderland - YouTube

Sand Animation Presents – Alice In Wonderland – YouTube (8:25)https://youtu.be/haEXS0vcB24Sand Animation Presents – Alice In WonderSand by Magdalena Bak, 150 Years of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.

Hansel and Gretel - Animated stories for children - talking books - video

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.

Fixed Fairy Tales Compilation | Three Little Pigs | Humpty Dumpty | and Lots More - YouTube

Fixed Fairy Tales Compilation | Three Little Pigs | Humpty Dumpty | and Lots More – YouTube (20:42)https://youtu.be/80tjJmXc0sIVolume One of Fixed Fairy Tales episodes. Humpty Dumpty, Princess and the Pea, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Piper, Goldilocks, the Three Bears, The Gingerbread Man, – use Closed Captions.

 

Writing

The Fairy Tale Shed - THE LITERACY SHED

The Fairy Tale Shed – THE LITERACY SHEDhttps://www.literacyshed.com/the-fairy-tale-shed.htmlTHE LITERACY SHED – Several Short Films with Teacher’s Notes for writing inspiration

Exploring Genre | How to Write a Fairy Tale

Exploring Genre | How to Write a Fairy Talehttp://writeshop.com/genres-how-to-write-a-fairy-tale/Teach kids how to write a fairy tale using important elements of magic, enchantment, and plot twists!

 

Games

Quia - Famous Fairy Tales

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.

Fairytales Quiz Free Activities online for kids in Kindergarten by MsDébora

Fairytales Quiz Free Activities online for kids in Kindergarten by MsD̩borahttps://www.tinytap.com/activities/g3sgb/play/fairytales-quizPlay this magical quiz to test your knowledge on Fairy Tales! РLearn the power of stories and the skills that are gained.

 

More Materials

EFL ESL Fairy Tales teaching resources | Everything you need - GoogooEnglish

EFL ESL Fairy Tales teaching resources | Everything you need – GoogooEnglishhttps://www.googooenglish.com/fairy-tales-efl-esl-teaching-resources/Find everything you need, from books and songs to complete lesson plans, in this collection of EFL ESL fairy tales teaching resources.

Final Words

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