Subject Area Language Arts

Grade Level Grade 3

Kirsten Hewitt Topic Fairy tales & Fracture fairy tales
UBD Unit Plan Length of Unit (days) 19 days

Stage 1 – Desired Results

Established Goals:
Use prior knowledge
Understand forms and genres
Understand techniques and elements
Generate ideas
Structure texts
Present information
Enhance presentation
Understandings: Essential Questions:
Students will understand that… What are the parts of a fairy tale?
Fairy tales have a consistent structure which
includes good and bad characters, magic, a What makes fairy tales different from other fiction?
problem, and a solution
What is a fractured fairy tale? How is it different from a
Fractured fairy tales include drastic changes to normal fairy tale?
the original fairy tale structure
What do I need to include in my own fairy tale?

How can I fracture a fairy tale?

Students will know… Students will be able to…
The distinguishing features of fairy tales Identify the different ways in which oral, print, and
other media texts such as stories, are organized, and
Fairy tales contain events, setting, and characters use them to construct and confirm meaning

Detail is important to the interest level of a story Identify the distinguishing features of a variety of oral,
print, and other media texts

Include events, setting, and characters when

summarizing or retelling oral, print, or other media
texts

Make inferences about a character’s actions or feelings

Describe the main characters in terms of who they are,

their actions in the story, and their relation to other
characters

Experiment with ways of generating and organizing

ideas prior to creating oral, print, and other media texts

Experiment with a variety of story beginnings to choose

ones that best introduce particular stories
 Subject Area Language Arts
Grade Level Grade 3
Kirsten Hewitt Topic Fairy tales & Fracture fairy tales
UBD Unit Plan Length of Unit (days) 19 days

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence

Summative Assessments/ Task: Formative Assessments:
 Final draft of story  Story maps/ plans
 Sharing of final draft of story  Rough drafts of students’ stories (x3)
 Character sketches
 Setting sketches
 Conferences on revised drafts of students’
stories
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
 Introduce fairy tales (read aloud)
 Summarize fairy tales (graphic organizers)
 Describe different fairy tales characters
 Describe different fairy tale settings
 Summarize a favourite fairy tale
 Create a class fairy tale
 Create own fairy tale
 Introduce fractured fairy tales (read aloud)
 Compare fairy tales and fractured fairy tales (graphic organizer)
 Fracture a fairy tale character
 Fracture a fairy tale problem/ solution
 Fracture a fairy tale as a class
 Fracture a favourite fairy tale

Mon Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Fri Sat Sun

30 May 1 Stinky Cheese
Man
Catch Up
Online Fractured Fairy
Tales
7 8 The very smart pea
and the princess to be
Story sequencing
Fairy tale sequencing
into books
2 Cinderella is so 3 4 5 6
annoying Response journal –
Summarize fairy tales kindness letter to a non-
finish friend
Fractured brainstorm
9 10 Honestly, Red Riding 11 12 13
Hood was rotten
Assembly Compare/ Contrast
Fractured Fairy tale (to
Red Riding Hood)

Response journal –
assembly reflection
14 15 A wolf at the door 16 Once Upon A Time 17 18 19 20
Fractured what ifs as a Story sequencing 2.0
class Fractured fairy tale
Fractured what ifs in planning
book
 Subject Area Language Arts
Grade Level Grade 3
Kirsten Hewitt Topic Fairy tales & Fracture fairy tales
UBD Unit Plan Length of Unit (days) 19 days

21 22 23 24 Cinderellis and the 25 26 27

Fractured fairy tale glass hill
planning Character traits of
Cinderellis as a class
Describe fractured
character
28 29 Sleepless Beauty 30 31 June 2 3
Describe fractured Write rough draft Response journal – 1
character animal imagining
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Write rough draft Response journal – zoo Con
Conference w/ students reflection
Conference w/ students
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Con Editors workshop Type good copy Type good copy
Edit/ write rough draft Conference w/ students
Conference w/ students