Narrative Writing Activities & Templates | Fairy Tales

This pack contains everything you need to teach narratives through fairy tales.

Included is a 9 week program with 2 detailed lessons per week (including guided/modelled activities, independent activities, and differentiation for support and extension). A list of separate sentence starters/activities are also included for other literacy rotations or activities that you may like to do throughout the week. At the end of a document are 3 pages of enrichment/gifted & talented discussion prompts, based on Bloom's Taxonomy and Kaplan's Theory of Depth & Complexity.

Worksheets included in the pack are detailed below:

Week 1: CHARACTER

• Gingerbread Man Description
• Describing the 3 Little Pigs
• Character Description- 3 levels (picture, short piece of writing, longer piece of writing)
• Character Description (Inside/Outside Traits)- 3 levels
• What if a character was just misunderstood- Good and bad character versions.

Week 2: SETTING

• Story Setting- 3 levels
• Create a new setting for Little Red Hiding Hood
• Create a new setting for Hansel and Gretel
• Create a new setting for ______.
• Write a sizzling start for 3 Billy Goats Gruff (3 levels)
• Sizzling Start template (3 levels)

 Week 3: COMPLICATION/PROBLEM

• Retell series of events for 3 Billy Goats Gruff (3 levels)
• My own Series of Events (3 levels)
• Gingerbread Man Character Profiles
• Gingerbread Man Sequence of Events
• Uh Oh Moment templates ( 3 levels)

Week 4: STORY ENDINGS

• Create a new ending for Hansel and Gretel (3 levels)
• Create a new ending for The Paper Bag Princess (3 levels)
• Create a new ending for Little Red Riding Hood (3 levels)

 Week 5: WRITING A WHOLE STORY

• Jack and the Beanstalk story sequencing- cut and paste
• Jack and the Beanstalk story sequencing- draw beginning, middle end (3 levels)
• Change it up- change the main features of Jack and the Beanstalk (2 levels)
• Change it up blank- change the main features of any story
• My version of Jack and the Beanstalk (3 levels)

Week 6: CREATING OWN FAIRY TALE (Character/Setting + Planning)

• Story Plan (2 versions)
• See previous templates

Week 7: CREATING OWN FAIRY TALE

• Story Plan (2 versions)
• My Own Fairy Tale template- 3 levels

 Week 8: PUBLISHING FAIRY TALE

Fairy Tale Publishing template- 2 levels

 Week 9: REVIEW + MIMIC FAIRY TALE

Use above templates

SENTENCE STARTERS/DISCUSSIONS + TEMPLATES

• Fairy Tale Recount
• Character Wanted Poster
• Character Recount (2 levels)
• My favourite/favorite fairy tale... (2 levels)
• My favourite/favorite fairy tale character... (2 levels)
• The fairy tale character I'd like to meet most... (2 levels)
• I wonder what would have happened if... (2 levels)
• A different problem for this story could be... (2 levels)
• Another way this story could have ended is... (2 levels)
• This story would have turned out differently if... (2 levels)
• If I had a Fairy Godmother... (2 levels)
• Dear Diary, From _____ (2 levels)
• Is the wolf good or bad? (2 levels)
• Dear Red Riding Hood, From Wolf (2 levels)
• Dear Jack, From Giant (2 levels)
• Dear 3 Little Pigs, From The Big Bad Wolf (2 levels)
• Dear Grandmother, From Little Red Riding Hood (2 levels)
• If I were one of the 3 little pigs I would have... (2 levels)
• The fairy godmother I prefer is... (2 levels)

3 PAGES OF ENRICHMENT/GIFTED & TALENTED PROMPTS

• Blooms Taxonomy Prompts- Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create
• Kaplan's Theory of Depth and Complexity: Details, Big Idea, Ethics, Different Points of View, Over Time.