This booklet is created for home learning with KS3. The booklet is designed to develop the key skills in English while focusing on Grimm’s Fairy Tales. There are 5 key activities as outlined below: A Research Task What is a Fairy Tale? Reading and rewriting Hansel and Gretel Creating a fairy tale monster. Writing a story titled The Enchanted Wood.

A 14-lesson scheme of work suitable for KS3 students, exploring the conventions of fairy tales. Also looks at juxtaposition and contrast, through the medium of Disneyland -vs- Dismaland. Includes full PowerPoint and all supplementary resources.

This unit covers 5 fairy tales and is designed for an S1 class (11-12). It has been designed so that they are introduced to the comparative writing required for the N4 AVU and so that they can try their hand at creative writing. We cover a variety of techniques, such as: purpose/audience, morals, themes, imagery.

Learning Challenge: Can I identify the elements of a fairy tale narrative? Designed with Zoom/Teams in mind, so will need tweaking for face-to-face teaching.

These mug shots were taken at the Fairy Tale Police Department! The fairy tale characters are suspects of crimes. Did they do something wrong? Did they commit a crime? Are they innocent or guilty? There are seven mug shot pictures featuring well-known characters from favourite stories and a blank template for students to create their own. The pictures are a versatile resource that can be used for guessing games, discussion, drama and writing prompts. Activity ideas are included in the download. Good for a fairy tale or crime topic, English and Citizenship. This resource is part of a ‘Once upon a crime’ series by Teachers Telling Tales and accompanies the Fairytale Forensics unit of study. You can also ‘bundle and save’ on this series.

Fairy Tales and Fractured Fairy Tales: Exploring Characters, Plot, and Setting! Everything you need to support your Fairy Tale Unit! Inside you will find: Elements of Fairy Tales: Graphic Organizer What Do We Already Know About Fairy Tales: Graphic Organizer Character/Character Traits: Graphic Organizer Character/Internal Character Traits: Graphic Organizer Character/External Character Traits: Graphic Organizer Good Character/Evil Character: Graphic Organizer Good Character/Evidence from Text to Support Graphic Organizer Evil Character/Evidence from Text to Support Graphic Organizer Characters/Action/Motivation Graphic Organizer Comparing Two Characters Graphic Organizer Character/Beginning of the Story/End of the Story Graphic Organizer Setting: Time/Place Graphic Organizer Sensory Images in the Setting Graphic Organizer Plot: Conflict/Solution Graphic Organizer Elements of Magic Brainstorming Determining Importance of Events: Graphic Organizer Internal/External Conflict Graphic Organizer Plot: Cause/Effect Graphic Organizer Plot: Sequence of Events Graphic Organizer What is a Fractured Fairy Tale? Brainstorming Comparing Fractured Fairy Tale to Original Graphic Organizer Fractured Fairy Tale: Characters/Plot/Setting Graphic Organizer Fractured Fairy Tale: Original Ending/New Ending

** Fairy Tales Escape Room ** Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive 'themed Escape Room’ experience. Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term. There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction. The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more… ** Escape Room Quiz Experience** Super Hero Escape Room Contents ☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge ☞ Optional Escape Certificates ☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead) Common FAQ’s ★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180) ★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!) ★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil. How to run this escape challenge This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice. The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections. Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation. Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle. Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish. Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes. Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully (Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.

These 24 Fairy Tales task cards are perfect for your English (or drama) lesson plans and topic. They are suitable for secondary students. They feature different activities including knowledge retrieval practice, multiple choice and spot the English mistakes amongst other English related activities. Contents of Blood Brothers Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Card bundle 1 x Set of 24 Different topic Task Cards with a range of activities and styles in editable and PDF versions 1 x Teacher answer sheet - All answers covered 2 x Student fill in activity sheets that can be used with the cards (optional) Each topic task card is matched to the theme of the set and includes numbering and answers designed by our English specialist . Can be printed in colour or black and white. How to use English Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Cards? These cards are perfect as an extension task, starter or plenary and as a means of testing knowledge upon completion of a unit. For a short task (extension/starter/plenary), you can simply give them one or two cards and differentiate which cards are given according to the students level or their areas needing improvement. For an end of unit, you could hand the cards out to different groups and have them switch the cards after a certain period of time (e.g. one group gets multiple choice, one group gets spot the mistakes, one group gets photocards, etc.). Benefits of using this new style of T&L activity Set of retrieval activities Motivating for students Bitesize English tasks Fun way to revise a topic Allow for differentiation Copy, cut and laminate – use over and over again Versatile and can be used in many different ways If you leave a nice review to email us at thecre8tiveresources@gmail.com for a History treat for your students Product code C8/TS/42 You may want to check out some of our other great ENGLISH resources: ENGLISH CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2020 ENGLISH ESCAPE ROOM Shakespeare 24 Task Cards A Christmas Carol 24 Task Cards English End of Term Bundle Careers in English Quiz Lesson GCSE English Language Escape Room Why is reading Important Assembly

A fun twist on writing fractured fairy tales, this magical writing prompt for scrambled fairy tales will get your students writing creative twisted stories! With over 7770 unique possible combinations, you could use this year after year and never get tired of the outcomes! Students roll a dice to decide the characters, setting, problem and moral of their own scrambled fairy tale based on this handy magical writing prompt resource. ☸ Example Rolls ⚀ -1- Main Character: Rapunzel ⚁ -2- Other Character(s): Goldilocks ⚂ -3- Setting: In the highest room, of the tallest tower. ⚃ -4- Problem: An angry creature stops the main character from making progress. ⚄ -5- Moral: Hard work pays off. ✂ Contents ✏ Teacher notes explaining how to implement Roll A Writing Prompt resource in the classroom ✏ Grading/marking rubric should you wish to use this resource as an assessment item ✏ Student-friendly instructional slideshow presentation that will hype up the activity and explain every aspect of Roll A Writing Prompts to ensure student success with the activity ✏ A full-page grid detailing the options for each side of a dice, in colour or black and white master ✏ Recording and story writing sheet ✏ Challenge vocabulary - can students use the included words in their stories? Easy differentiation, with beginner, intermediate and expert vocabulary levels. ✏ Story starters for those who need the little extra nudge! ✏ Printable dice template with instructions (two sizes: large and small) ▶ Teacher Preparation Instructions Ensure students understand the basics of narrative writing before implementing in the classroom. You could print a copy to add to writing centers, display the color version on the board for a class activity or hand out individual copies to students. Children can view on any digital device and type into a Word document if distance learning.

A two-part, fully resourced lesson introducing students to fairy tales, including conventions. Lesson Two: What are fairy tales Students will gain an initial understanding of the genre to support their homework research, which will include conventions and key-terms to be utilised throughout the topic. Students should be informed of their assessment task and informed of the skills they will need to develop over the course of this term. Lesson Three: Fairy tale conventions Students will explore and identify the conventions in fairy tales. This lesson should link, yet differentiate the conventions in Fantasy fiction (Term 5 SOL). Week Overview: By the end of the week, students need an understanding of what makes a fairy tale, common conventions, different types of fairy tales, and the oral origins of the genre.

Fractured fairy tales take the traditional fairy tales that you know and change them. Elements such as the characters, setting, point of view or plot might be changed. What is included in this resource? Graphic Organizers: * Prewriting brainstorming (2 worksheets) * Planning Story Elements * Planning Story Sequence * Comparing Stories *** An informational sheet about fractured fairy tales is also included. Mini-LapBook: Students will select a traditional fairy tale and write a new fractured version of the story they have selected. The new fractured tale along with character portraits describing the hero(ine) and villain are incorporated into a castle LapBook-Mini. All student printables are in b/w. No color ink needed. Kids add the color. Each lap book is made with half a file folder. Enjoy! ~ SunnyDaze on TPT

18 lessons for a Modern Fairy tales unit, where students work to write their own modern fairy tale. Each lesson is fully planned and there is a covering slide for teacher reference at the beginning, detailing reading and writing skills covered in the lesson and whether any resources are required. Each lesson has a learning objective and there are several homework tasks included within the unit. Lessons include exploring the structure of fairy tales, characterisation, persuasive speaking and listening to defend the Wolf from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, and advising fairy tale characters. Originally delivered to Year 7. Whilst the unit details Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening APP areas, these can easily be adapted to suit the assessment in your department. Files in this resources: Scheme of Work - PowerPoint of all 18 lessons Lesson 6 The Three Little Pigs Story - Word document for Lesson 6 Lesson 6 The Ugly Duckling Story - Word document for Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Persuasive Speech EAL writing frame - PDF for Lesson 7 (can also be used for lower ability students) Lesson 9 Baba Yaga - PDF for Lesson 9 Lesson 12 Planning Sheet - PDF for Lesson 12 Lesson 16 and 17 Little Red Riding Hood poem - Word document for Lesson 16 and 17 Lesson 18 Shrek Critical Appreciation - Word document for Lesson 18

Students discuss conventions/features of fairy-tales. They can then look at the different trailers (links provided) and identify as many fairy-tale features as possible. Really good for engagement.

Stimuli for a twisted fairytales unit targetted at upper KS2 focused around developing an understanding of point of view. The documents included are: A planning sheet for the children to plan their own fairytale from a different point of view with prompting questions Pictures of different characters with questions to stimulate discussion. Children can pretend to be the character and write their response to the questions from that character’s point of view. This document includes pictures from google, I do not own these pictures. Diary extracts from the point of view of different characters where the children need to use clues to work out who has written the diary. Differentiated according to colour: red (easiest), green (moderate), yellow (hard)

Lesson plan and activities based on The Three Little Pigs. Includes summarising the story, comparison of a clip to the original story, comprehension questions and a scaffolded writing task for creating a newspaper article.

Fun fairy tales lesson where students look at different fairy tales and identify common themes and tropes within them. They create presentations in groups to teach each other about the fairy tales they’ve looked at. I encouraged my students to think about gender roles within fairy tales and what issues are present. The article offers a great opportunity for a debate around whether we should change and update our fairy tale stories or whether they should remain unchanged…

Fairytale wordsearch used as a starter when studying Artemis Fowl.

a short extract from the Golden key one of the Grimms fairy tales is given to the children and they continue the story from where they left off. on the second page is the complete fairy tale which the Grimms often left unfinished at the end of the their tales to give an indication of more treasures to come

A lesson based on kurt vonneguts story graphs - pupils sequence a simple fairy tale then produce their own stoy graph of the key events like the ones shown in the infographic and on the powerpoint - they then learn a little about kurt vonnegut the author before comparing their story graphs with the persons next to them and looking for similarities and differences in the stories as a plenary. they can also identify the main story type