Enter the Land of Stories to
Discover the Magic of Fairytales!
By
Julia Berardelli
Sharla Bryant
Joy Shore
Introduction
How would you like to be like one of the Kindergarteners you just
heard about? How would you like to create YOUR own fairytale?
Do you know what it really means to be a fairytale? Do you know
what needs to be included in every story?
Click on the magic wand to see some fairytales!
Let’s break down a fairytale
together!
Kindergarten CCGPS
 ELACCLRL1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in
a text.
 ELACCKRL2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
 ELACCKRL3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major
events in a story.
 ELACCKRL4: Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
 ELACCKRL5: Recognize common types of texts.
 ELACCKRL10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and
understanding
 ELACCKW3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single
event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they
occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
 ELACCKW5: With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and
suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
Task
Students will gain an understanding of the elements of stories
and the elements in fairytales. They will analyze fairytales with the
teacher, and with a partner. After discussing the elements of stories
and fairytales, students will be required to brainstorm, plan, and
create their own fairytale. Students will evaluate their writing using
a checklist, and peers will evaluate the work as well. The students
will revise, edit, and publish their fairytale. Each student will share
their fairytale, and the class will evaluate the work to determine if all
elements were included.
Process
Students will review movies and prezis to review the elements of stories and learn about the elements
in fairytales.
Students will practice analyzing fairytales with the teacher.
Students will choose a partner, become fairytale detectives, and analyze fairytales utilizing a checklist.
Students will utilize bubble maps to brainstorm and story maps for planning their fairytale.
Students will synthesize the information they learned and create their own fairytale including all of
the required elements.
Students will utilize a checklist to evaluate their own work and to peer evaluate.
Students will revise their fairytale based on feedback and then publish.
Each student will share their fairytale with the class, and the class will evaluate the stories utilizing the
rubric.
Students will choose an extension activity utilizing critical thinking skills. They will write a “fractured
fairytale”, compare and contrast two characters, compare and contrast two fairy tales, or divide into
groups of four to read the Reader’s theater glogster and perform the reader’s theater.
Review the Elements of Stories
Review these familiar fairytales with a partner and discuss.
Identify characters, setting, fairytale elements.
Watch Tangled and identify the elements!
Let’s analyze!
Let’s analyze these stories together!
Do they include the elements required for a fairy tale?
Why or why not? Justify your answer.
Solution
Problem
Happy
Endings
Numbers
3&7
Talking
Animals
Princes
Princesses
Castles,
forests,
towns
Villains/Her
os
(good/evil)
Fantasy
Magic
Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon
a time
Little Red Hen
Illustrations
Story
How can YOU become a
fairytale detective?
Choose your own fairytale to analyze!
You and a partner will decide upon a fairy
tale of your choice.
Use the fairy tale detective sheet to locate all
of the necessary elements!
Brainstorm!
 It is time to brainstorm ideas for your own fairy tale!
Things to consider when thinking of ideas:
Who will your characters be?
What will they look like?
How will they act?
Will they be people or animals?
Where will they be?
What will they see, hear, smell, feel, taste?
Is it day or night?
What kind of problem will they have?
How will they solve it?
Is anything magical happening?
Use one of the attached bubble maps, or create your own!
Plan Your Story
Plan your story online with ReadWriteThink’s interactive Story Map
OR
Use the attached story map!
Write your Fairytale
Choose your writing paper!
Fairytale Checklist
1) Evaluate your writing.
2) Choose a partner.
3) Evaluate each other’s
writing.
4) Reflect on your writing.
What did I do well?
What do I need to change?
5) Revise and edit your work.
Conclusion
 Wow!! You guys have become real experts on story elements and fairy tale
elements. You were able to create your own fairytale based on all that you
learned.
 You have learned that a story must include characters, setting, plot including a
problem and a solution, and it must have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
 You have also learned that a fairy tale has special elements included as well. In a
fairy tale you might see illustrations, “Once Upon a Time”, magic, fantasy, villains,
heroes, special settings like castles and forests, princes and princesses or kings and
queens, talking animals, happy endings, numbers 3 and 7, a problem, and a
solution.
 Since you did such a great job creating your own fairytale, now choose one of
the extension activities on the next page to complete. There are many exciting
choices!
Extension activities
Retell a fairytale from the perspective of another character, explain
why you behaved a certain way. You can change story elements as well!
Compare and contrast adventures and
experiences of two different characters from two
different stories OR compare and contrast two
fairytales.
Divide into groups of four and
complete Reader’s Theater activity.
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Evaluation
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3+
The fairytale has either a
good character or an evil
character.
The fairytale includes “where”
the story happened.
The fairytale has a good
character and an evil character.
The fairytale includes “where”
and “when” the story happened.
The fairytale has good and evil
characters, and the characters are
described in detail.
The setting is described in detail with
sensory words.
Fairytale includes a problem,
but it does not flow with the
story.
The characters lived happily
ever after.
Fairytale includes a problem
that makes sense.
Problem is related in detail with much
thought and makes sense throughout.
The characters resolve their
problem and live happily ever
after.
The fairy tale ends with characters
resolving their problems, being
rewarded and/or living happily ever
after.
Uses a combination of drawing,
dictating, and/or writing to narrative a
single event or several loosely linked
events, events are sequenced in a way
that makes sense, descriptive words are
used, provides closure.
Character
The fairytale has at least
one character.
Setting
No setting was described.
Problem
There is no problem
created.
Resolution
There is no apparent ending.
BME
There is no clear beginning,
middle, and end.
Uses a combination of drawing,
dictating, and/or writing to
narrate a single event or
several loosely related events.
Events may not be in order.
Magic
No magic occurs.
Something magic occurs.
Uses a combination of drawing,
dictating, and/or writing to
narrative a single event or
several loosely linked events,
events are sequenced in a way
that makes sense. There is a
clear beginning, middle, and end.
Magic is part of the fairytale.
Creativity
The fairytale is realistic
(not imaginary.
The fairytale is a retelling of
another story with few
created differences.
The fairytale is a retelling of
another story with many
creative differences.
The magic is an important part of the
fairytale.
The fairytale is original and imaginary.
Resources
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMihfg2f7s
https://www.georgiastandards.org/common-core/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.georgiastandards.org/standards/Georgia%20Performance%20Standards/Kinder
gartenApproved7-12-2004.pdf
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fairy-Tale-Elements-125329
http://www.etsy.com/listing/28701359/land-of-many-tales-fairy-tale-map-print
http://blog.flocabulary.com/five-elements-of-a-story-lesson/
http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/organizing/bubble.pdf
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elements-of-a-Fairy-Tale-205416
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/fairytales/
http://www.speakaboos.com/story/little-red-riding-hood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_cXmf3cNU
http://www.speakaboos.com/story/the-little-red-hen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTpTB4fxigQ