Text Set 2

I wanted to share my Fractured Fairy Tales unit because this was one my students LOVED! We would read the classic fairy tale on Monday, the fractured tale on Tuesday, then the remainder of the week we played games and activities with the stories. Here are just a few of the texts and activities we used:

This is the classic Goldilocks story written by James Marshall. I wanted to introduce the students to a version that wasn't from Disney. The story is mostly the same but the class enjoyed pointing out the differences from this story than the Disney version.







Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks is the fractured tale that we read to compare and contrast against the original story. The class's favorite part was when Goldie was taking "selfie's" in the house.

This picture is an example of what we did on Wednesday. I would lay out the books inside a hula hoop and the kids would identify something that was the same or different about the stories. Once they identified an element, I would give them an index card and they would choose a partner to help them write it down. After everyone was paired off and writing, we would come back together as a class and read each index card one at a time. The class had to decide in which hula hoop to place the card. This activity was later put in the Read to Someone center so they could work together and complete the compare and contrast activity.

Here is another text that we used. This is also written by James Marshall. We have these books in our mentor text set and that is another reason that I chose to use this author.  The fractured tale I chose is Cindy Ellen. The class enjoyed the western version of Cinderella. After we read both stories, we compared and contrasted them with the hula hoop index cards.


http://www.speakaboos.com/story/cinderella
is the website my class would access to listen and follow along to another version of Cinderella. Speakaboos gives the text on the screen so the kids can read it as well as listen to it.

The next texts we compared and contrasted were The Three Little Javelinas and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.

After we read those two stories, we did a retelling of the classic version. Students were divided into pairs and they chose what part of the classic version they wanted to illustrate. Another literacy activity we completed as a class was to choose the bad guy from any of the three stories and compete a Wanted poster for their chosen character. Surprisingly, most of the class chose the Big, Bad Pig.
I didn't take any pictures of my students' work but here are similar pictures that I found online.