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Cinderella Centers
Josepha shows file folder centers for telling time, designed to go with your Cinderella unit. Continue reading
Category: fairy tales
Fairy Tale Lesson Plans
Fairy tales share information about human cultures, about human emotions, and about the nature of the world. They’re also fun to read for all ages. Here are some of our folk and fairy tale lesson plans: Rapunzel Sleeping Beauty Foolish Jack Jack and the Beanstalk Pinocchio Goldilocks and the Three… Continue reading
Pinocchio Lesson Plans
Carlo Collodi (pen name of Carlo Lorenzini) wrote his Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883. The book told the story of a wooden puppet who dreamed of being a real boy. American students usually are more familiar with Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film version of Pinocchio. In either version, the… Continue reading
The Frog Prince Lesson Plans
The Frog Prince is another classic fairy tale written down by the Brothers Grimm. In the story, a princess is playing near a pond, and drops her golden ball in the water. A frog offers to get the ball for her, but only if she will let him live… Continue reading
Seven at a Blow
Seven at One Blow or The Brave Little Tailor is a Grimm’s fairy tale about a tailor who swats seven flies at once, and is so proud of himself that he boasts to everyone that he has killed “seven at one blow.” When his listeners think he means that he… Continue reading
The Lambikin Lesson Plans
The Lambikin is a folk tale from India. It is not very well known in the United States, so it would be a good one to use when you have a class that is tired of all the folktales they already know. In the story, the Lambikin is going to his… Continue reading
The Five (or Seven) Chinese Brothers Lesson Plans
The Five Chinese Brothers was written by Claire Huchet Bishop in 1938. While it is generally described as a Chinese folktale, I haven’t found any earlier collections of it. The story begins, “Once upon a time, there were five Chinese brothers, and they all looked exactly alike.” Each brother… Continue reading
