Curriculum Guide

Aim

• To provide teachers with a wide range of activities to use familiar folk and fairy tales to engage children with literature.

Rationale

• Young children find familiar folk and fairy tales immensely enjoyable and highly engaging.  In addition, folk and fairy tales are a genre of literature with which children should become familiar.  This genre deals with important issues, including:

• good truimphing over evil
• right triumphing over wrong
• hard work and unselfishness being rewarded

• These stories are ripe with possibilities for rich literature and complex language discussion, as well as related curricular objectives (especially the arts, social studies, and character education).  These tales include a rich vocabulary that can further enhance the reading experience. 
• Comparing and contrasting different versions of ramiliar tales is an excellent exercise in higher ofer thinks skills. 
• Reading many variations of a story provides a supportive framework for early writing.

Audience/Pre-Requisites

• Primary (Kg--2nd grade) teachers who use a balanced literacy approach in their classrooms.

Subject Matter

• Language Arts

Learning Objectives

Illinois State Goals and Objectives:

• SG 1: Read with understanding and fluency
• SG 2: Understand explicit and implicit menaning in the literature representing individual community, nations, world, and historcial perspectives.
• SG 3: Write to communicate for a variety of purposes.
• SG 4: Listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations.
• SG 5: Use the language arts for inquiry and research to acquire, organize, analyze, evaluate, and communicate.

Instructional Plan

• See individual units for instructional plans.

Materials

• Bibliography
• Other materials identified in individual lessons

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Assessment/Evaluation

• Observation
• Rubrics for specific activities

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