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Folktale and Fairytale Heroes

  By RebeccaHaden critical thinking, fairy tales
fairy tale prince

Do you feel that the guys get left out when you study folk and fairy tales? Here are three lesson plans at different levels of complexity that focus on the heroes of the stories. Let’s hear it for the boys As you read folktales and fairy tales, create character maps… Continue reading

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Christmas Around the World: England

  By RebeccaHaden books, fairy tales, math, social studies

Here are some of our favorite ideas for Christmas Around the World lessons for England. The Jolly Christmas Postman is the holiday version of Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s famous The Jolly Postman. As in the first book, we follow the postman as he delivers the mail on his bicycle. And… Continue reading

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The Snow Queen

  By RebeccaHaden character education, fairy tales
Snow Queen lesson plans

  The Snow Queen is a lesser-known tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It’s a collection of stories, really. The first is about a mirror made by an evil sprite, which shows everything reflected in it at its worst. This mirror is broken, and bits of it fly into people’s eyes… Continue reading

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden character education, fairy tales, social studies

“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is the story of a young shepherd. Growing bored with his work, he shouts “Wolf!” to make the townspeople come running. He laughs at them and at their anger when they find he has tricked them. He repeats the joke, so at last when a wolf… Continue reading

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Hansel and Gretel Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden character education, fairy tales, social studies
the witch's gingerbread cottage

Hansel and Gretel is a good, horrible fairy tale for when you want a creepy story. The University of Pittsburgh collection contains the basic Grimm’s version. The story is certainly among the most familiar of fairy tales. A poor woodcutter and his wife, faced with starvation, abandon their two children… Continue reading

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Ballad Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden english, fairy tales, music

  A ballad is a poem that tells a story, typically sung, though we often just read ballads in English classes. We have a ballad for you to work with, “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry.” It’s in a video at the bottom of this post, if you’d like to… Continue reading

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The Teeny Tiny Woman Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden books, fairy tales
The Teeny Tiny Woman

The Teeny Tiny Woman” is sort of a ghost story and it is sort of spooky. There is not a great deal of story to it. A teeny tiny woman finds a bone and takes it home to make soup. The owner of the bone requests its return, repeatedly, in… Continue reading

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Little Red Hen Lesson Plans

  By hadensites fairy tales
Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

The Little Red Hen is a familiar story, and one that all kids ought to know. In the story, the Little Red Hen plants wheat, harvests it, and bakes bread to feed her family. At every stage, she asks for help, saying “Who will help me plant the wheat?” and so on.… Continue reading

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East of the Sun and West of the Moon

  By RebeccaHaden fairy tales
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon

  “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” is a Norwegian tale, though some say it has Celtic roots. The two cultures are not so far apart geographically and not without trade, so both claims may be correct. This is a less familiar fairy tale, which makes it a… Continue reading

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  By RebeccaHaden centers, fairy tales, music, science
Goldilocks

Let’s read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The title links you to a simple, traditional telling of the story, with pictures. In the story, a little girl named Goldilocks goes into the house of a bear family and tastes their porridge (which they have left cooling while they went for… Continue reading

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