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Provide the following example: Video Diary In this performing arts lesson, students will work to create a short video diary to showcase the import parts of their life and edit the video into a 5 minute or less montage using EZVid or similar program. Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. The Key Elements of Fictional Text. Students will make a beautiful vibrant menorah using art supplies while learning about the background. Assign students to a partner, and pass out and project the Using My Own Words:
Students begin by making a list of fairy tales they know, and then brainstorming characteristics that describe those fairy tales. They then use their knowledge of fairy tales to make predictions during a read-aloud of a fairy tale picture book.
Next, students work together in small groups to read, discuss, and analyze fairy tales. The lesson follows a process method that includes peer review and encourages using picture books as models and concludes with individual reflection on the group project and fairy tales.
Fairy Tale Picture Books: This printable page lists recommended fairy tales in picture book format.
Use this online tool to analyze fairy tale characters, plots, and settings. Picture books are key to the success of this lesson plan, serving as the models and inspiration for students' own compositions. My students become instantly quiet and focused when I begin to tell a story.
If your students are familiar enough with the stories, tell the stories collaboratively as a class at circle time. As they relate the tale together, your students may discover that they do not all remember the story the same way. Choose a fairy tale or two and have groups of three or four students each take a different version and perform it as readers theater!
My second graders loved it and they made their own props too! We do problem-solving with the characters from fairy tales.
It all ends with Fairy Tale Day, when kids dress up as princesses, knights, and dragons. Such a fun celebration for everyone! Swap the bad guys in the stories.
Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale, Grades: K - 1st, Subject: English/Language Arts. Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Fun, Grades: 5 - 12th, Subject: Arts.
How would the stories be different? For Snow White , instead of an apple, use a tissue box; instead of a mirror, use a computer.
The kids loved it!