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Subject(s): Writing
Unit: Fairy Tales
Lesson Title: Fairy Tale Characteristics
Grade: 3rd
1. Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1-Ask and answer questions to demonstrate
understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2-Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and
myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and
explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
2. Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the structure and attributes of Fairytales.

Students will be able to recognize and list the examples of the characteristics
found in the text.

Students will gain a better understanding of what to expect as they read books that
are considered Fairytales.

3. Materials:
smartBoard

Pencils

Characteristic Detectives Worksheet

Plot/Setting/Characters Worksheet

Jack and the Beanstalk

4. Procedures:
o Introduction:
To prepare the students for the lesson, as a class, we engage in an informal discussion
about fairytales.

Today we will begin examining, thinking about, and developing a

deeper familiarity with fairy tales, a genre most of us began
hearing when we were very young. How many of you have read,
or heard, or seen a film of a fairy tale? Please put a thumb up if
you have read, heard or seen a fairy tale.

The students will be asked to turn and talk with a classmate about the fairytales they
have read and what characteristics are common in these tales. The students will be asked

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to think about and describe elements common in fairytales like setting, characters, plot,
ect.

The students will be given cards with questions,

o Sample Questions for Turn and talk:

What is the setting like in a fairytale?

What characters do we see in fairy tales?

How do fairytales start?

I heard some great ideas as you talked to your partners. Lets share our ideas with your
classmates.

Each group tells their classmates their questions and how they answered the
questions.
o By giving the students an opportunity to think about Fairytales, they
are activating prior knowledge of the genre.
o With the brief introduction to fairytales, the students begin making
observations about the genre.

Today I want to teach you that fairy tales are stories that have particular
characteristics, or attributes, that we will always find when we read them.
Knowing these characteristics knowing how fairy tales tend to go can
help us to read them and know what to expect as we are reading. This
makes it easier for us to understand the story as we read and deepens our
comprehension of the story, too. Lets see if we can recognize the
characteristics of a fairy tale as we read a story together.

o Body:
The teacher reads aloud the Jack and the Beanstalk to students, pausing
to notice and talk about the attributes that define the genre.

As the story is read, the teacher asks questions to students.

Frequently, the teacher pauses to see what the students have

checked off on their chart.
o The students will put their thumbs up if they checked off
the box and engage in a brief discussion

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As the teacher reads the story to the students, the students will check off
the characteristics they see on their Characteristic Detectives worksheet.

The teacher will state that while characteristics are similar in Fairytales, not all
characteristics are seen in every Fairytale.

Characteristics
Fairytales..

Do NOT need to include fairies.

Set in the pastusually significantly long ago. May be
presented as historical fact from the past.
Include fantasy, supernatural or make-believe aspects.
Typically incorporate clearly defined good characters and
evil characters.
Involves magic elements, which may be magical people,
animals, or objects. Magic may be positive or negative.
May include objects, people, or events in threes.
Focus the plot on a problem or conflict that needs to be
solved.
Often have happy endings, based on the resolution of the
conflict or problem.
Usually teach a lesson or demonstrate values important to
the culture.
Begins with Once Upon a Time, Once long ago, Long, long
ago etc.
Story setting is usually in a castle, forest, or town.
Many of the characters are animals or members of royalty.
Story has magic.
Ending is "happily ever after."
At the conclusion of the story, we will discuss the characteristics the
students checked off.
o Closing

The students will write the title, the plot, the characters and settings on the worksheet.

By thinking about the characteristics they checked off, the students will begin
thinking of how the characteristics are portrayed in the book and begin to fill
out the chart.
o Students will be encouraged to share what they wrote at the
conclusion of the lesson.

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Today, we read a new fairy tale and discovered the elements that authors use
in order to create a fairy tale. Tomorrow, we will look at a new example.

5. Assessment:
To assess the students, I will review the worksheets the students have completed.
i. The characteristics detective worksheet will help me recognize if the
students are able to identify the characteristics as they hear the text.

By having a discussion about the worksheet with the entire class, I am able to see
what students understood the characteristics and what students may be struggling.

6. Accommodations, Differentiation, Management Issues, and Transitions:

Accommodations:
Students who have difficulty remembering the characteristics Fairy tales
will be given a book mark that lists the characteristics of fairy tales.
Differentiation:
Students who have difficulty listening to the story and checking off the
chart will be allowed to check of the characteristics after the story.
Management Issues:
A set of numbers will be called and those students will get a turn sitting on
the bean bags.
Students who are disruptive while sitting on the carpet will be asked to sit
at a table.
Students will be monitored during the turn and talk so that the teacher can
make sure they are all properly engaged in the discussion
Transitions:
When coming over to the carpet, the students will be called by number.
When returning to their seats, the students will be called by number.
The students will be given their characteristic detective worksheets before
coming over to the carpet.
As the students are returning to their seats, the will go to the side table to
get the worksheet.
Lesson Plan Chart:
PROCEDURE
S
INTRO

TEACHER DOES

STUDENT DOES

EST.
TIME
2 Minutes

Introduce what the students will be Sitting quietly on the carpet

doing today
Listening to the teacher
Walking around to listen to the ideas Turning and talking to a peer about 4 Minutes

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BODY

CLOSING

of the students.
Stating
questions
to
further
encourage the discussion
Reading the story to the students.
Ask questions to further engage the
students.
Point out characteristics.
Discuss what Characteristics they
saw as we read.
Name the characteristics and prompt
thinking.
Walk around
Helping students
Answering questions
Reviewing chart.

the characteristics of Fairy tales.

Listening to the story.

10
Answering related questions.
Minutes
Checking off characteristics on the
Worksheet.
Naming the characteristics.
7 Minutes
Listing Examples.

Complete chart.
Ask questions (If necessary)

10
Minutes

Sharing when they wrote the chart

3 Minutes

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Fairy Tale Chart

Title

Characters

Setting

Plot

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