Introducing+Fairytales

Introducing Fairytales

Overview~ -The point of these exercises is to introduce __students__ to fairytales.

Objectives~
 * 1) __Introduce__ __students__ to fairy tales and what is generally featured in them
 * 2) Students can engage in group and class discussions. Helps with developing group working skills
 * 3) Students will be required to call on their memory.
 * 4) Engage students logic and problem solving skills

Directions~ -Set up a Powerpoint presentation consisting of __different__ pictures from various fairy tales (Be sure none of the manes of the fairy tales in the pictures). Quickly go through the powerpoint and after ask the students to guess which pictures belong to which fairy tales. An example powerpoint is provided. -Split students up into groups and as a group have them discuss certain questions such as: What is a fairy tale? What different types of fairy tales are there? What is generally featured in a fairy tale? Where did they first hear of fairy tales? Groups will then share their answers with another group and compare answers. -Set up a class discussion by asking students various questions like what is there favourite fairytale and why? or see if students can list as many fairy tales as they can think of and give a brief description of the plot of that fairy tale. -Upload a youtube or speakaboo video of a fairy tale for example the Gingerbread Man. After the video ask a few questions such as Was it really wise for the gingerbread man to trust the fox? Do you think there was another way for the gingerbread man to cross the river? this can __test__ students problem solving skills.



Here is a youtube video of the gingerbread man. media type="youtube" key="7NjDUMeBaUo" width="425" height="350"

If you are chosing to not use the Gingerbread Man as your fairy tale example there are many fairy tale videos on Speakaboo