Use this simple news report based on the fairy tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to illustrate the features of writing a news report. This is a great one-off lesson which consolidates news report writing skills. Students write their own news report based on a fairy tale of their choice. This includes a scaffolding planning sheet to help pupils organise their ideas.

A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for RUMAYSA A Fairy Tale by Radiya Hafiza. This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills. The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text. Activities include: COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context. Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work. Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme. Book response - creative responses, written responses. All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

Jack and the Beanstalk EYFS Activity Pack A printable activity pack based on the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk. These engaging activities are ideal for Early Years and Key Stage 1 learners and support storytelling, vocabulary development and fine motor skills. Perfect for literacy provision, traditional tales topics, small group work or story sack activities. What’s included • Story sequencing cards • Key vocabulary cards • Pencil control / fine motor tracing strips • Story characters / puppets Skills supported • Story retelling and sequencing • Vocabulary development • Fine motor skills • Oral storytelling • Literacy provision activities Simply print and laminate if desired. Cards can be used with dry wipe pens or as part of a story sack activity. Perfect for: EYFS Reception Year 1

“Writing for a Purpose: Fairy Tales” is a learning resource designed to help Key Stage 2+ children comprehend the essential elements and purposes of writing fairy tales. This resource includes a detailed explanation of the features of a fairy tale, such as good vs evil, the presence of magic, and the inclusion of a moral or lesson. Fairy tales often involve characters who must overcome obstacles to achieve their goal, and they typically have a happy ending. The resource provides an exemplar fairy tale to demonstrate how these components can come together in a story. Teachers can use this resource in English lessons to introduce children to the genre of fairy tales and guide them on how to create an effective story. They can provide examples of fairy tales and help children understand the elements that make up a good story. Furthermore, this resource can also be used to encourage and scaffold writing across the curriculum. For example, children can apply the knowledge and skills they have learned from creating a fairy tale to write similar pieces for other subjects, by using their imagination and creativity to incorporate the elements of a fairy tale. “Writing for a Purpose: Fairy Tales” is a valuable resource that can support children in developing their writing skills and understanding of different genres.

Perfect for World Book Day! Two Traditional Tale/Fairy Tale theme ‘What can you see’ boards… Pack comes with a magnifying glass cut out you can laminate and use to ‘spot’ what you can see Children can use post it notes, whiteboards or paper to write on Also includes… Table sign Star cut outs

Guess the fairy tale from the clues - a great topic starter.

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.

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

A selection of fairy tale themed resources for the EYFS. Includes: Three Bears Topic Web: all areas of EYFS Three Pig House Junk Model Plan: Expressive Arts and Design Making Gingerbread Men Baking Plan: Physical Development and Literacy Three Pigs Story Picture Plan: Expressive Arts and Design and Literacy

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.

5 VIPERS style lessons worksheets plus 1 PPT

Give all of your fairy tales a ‘happily ever after’ with these fairy tale writing prompts, perfect for fairy tale writing. Five sentence fairy tales are a powerful way to teach students how to construct a fairy tale. Writing five descriptive sentences to outline each stage of the fairy tale, helps your students to successfully complete their stories. No more unfinished stories! The ‘five sentence fairy tale’ scaffold includes opener/hook, orientation, complication, solution & resolution. There are also fractured fairy tale slides with different ideas for fracturing a fairy tale/ Here’s what is included in this resource: PowerPoint slideshow with eleven different fairy tale-themed prompts for displaying on your whiteboard: Traditional fairy tale prompts - focussing on characters, settings etc. Prompts for fractured fairy tales - different prompts including how students can fracture their tales. Blank slide to add your own prompts Use on your whiteboard or for distance learning. Easy to differentiate! You will find your lower writers will finally give you complete stories, while your talented writers will fill a page with just five sentences! When students nail this process, they are ready to use these sentences as topic sentences for narrative paragraphs. How can you develop this idea? Once students have nailed writing five sentences, they can extend the sentences to become topic sentences for paragraphs. I like to tell my students they now have to write two sentences, then three etc. Before you (or they) know it, they have written a complete story! Finally, all of my students edit for language features, structure, grammar, punctuation and spelling. This is when they check they have included direct speech, descriptive language, figurative language and more, depending on their age. I have used Five Sentence Stories (and the planning and brainstorming processes) to ‘bump up’ my students to the next level -there is nothing better than reading complete and detailed stories!

Fairy Tales Team Building Escape Room - Virtual Escape Room run through PowerPoint by Cre8tive Resources! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your middle school or even high school class. Will your students be able to escape before time runs out? The escape room puzzles content will be tailored to the topic of this escape room. Escape Room Product Contents: ☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display ☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams) ☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms ☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking) ☞ Bonus Riddles with every puzzle. ☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly ☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts. ☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams ✿ The 7 Rooms include: The Garage, The Attic, The Nowhere, The Dungeon, The Entrance, The Rest Room and the Garden. (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room (this one is very general and fun!) and is suitable for Middle School and High School students. Our Philosophy ✿ We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Why not try out one of our other fantastic best selling Escape Rooms ⇨ English and Language Digital Escape Room ⇨ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Digital Escape Room ⇨ Big Fun End of Term Digital Escape Room ⇨ PSHE and Form Time Escape Room ⇨ Careers Digital Escape Room ⇨ Drama and Performance Digital Escape Room JUST PRINT AND GO! They can also be used to encourage a flipped learning environment.

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.

This lesson stems from the Literacy Shed Three Little Pigs video, looking at the alternative viewpoints of the classic tale. It begins by watching the video and then discussing the different points of view of the story with a debate and some hot seat role play. The children then go on to analyse a WAGOLL to create a checklist and finally create their own article. This lesson comes with supportive material and an optional extension task. The lesson is aimed at Upper KS2, however I have also delivered it to Lower KS2, with great success. The children really enjoyed the debate and created some very imaginative and impressive pieces of writing. If you enjoyed the lesson or found the resources helpful, click onto the downloads button and leave a review, thank you!

Updated November 2024 with six new characters and improved templates. 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 thirteen mug shot pictures featuring well-known characters from favourite stories and blank templates 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 including oracy 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.

Hessian backed fairy tale character construction cards. Can you build a castle for the giant from Jack and the Bean Stalk?

A selection of images of characters from fairy tales with a worksheet for sorting. Can be used as independent activity or as a game.

Example of a fairy tale to put in correct order