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Fairy Tales Fictional writing

Fairy Tales Fictional writing

Lesson 1 – Introduction You will learn about the characteristics of fairy tales through children's literature.

What do you know about fairy tales?

Let’s read a fairy tale! As we read, be looking for the things we thought we would find in a fairy tale. Be ready to mark it on our anchor chart.

Fairy Tale Writing Partners Logan and Lekha Ryder and Evan Charley and Rose Faith and Scarlet Cogan and Petra Lucas and Gabe Keira and Lindsay Emily, Bridget, and Julie Luke and Liam

Magic plays an important role in many fairy tales. With your fairy tale writing partner, brainstorm a list of different types of magic you’ve read about in fairy tales.

Villains Fairy tales just wouldn’t be the same without those pesky villains! Who are some famous fairy tale villains? Brainstorm a list of fairy tale villains you might use in your own story!

Let’s Share! Magic Villains • • spells Evil step-mothers

Fairy Tales- Day 2 What do you remember about the elements of fairy tales from yesterday? Let’s read another to see if it fits our rules.

Fairy Tales- Heroes and Villains Who was the hero in today’s fairy tale? How did the author describe him/her? Who was villain? How was he/she described?

Fairy Tales have heroes! Let’s create a hero together!

Every hero has a villain! Let’s create a villain together!

Now it’s your turn! Take 10 minutes to yourself to create these two main characters for your fairy tale. Then, you will get with your fairy tale writing partner to share and help each other develop these characters.

Fairy Tales- Day 3 Today we are going to read another fairy tale and add it to our chart! Does it meet all of our criteria for fairy tales?

Planning a Fairy Tale Let’s look back at the characters we created yesterday. Today, we need to create a story based on these characters. What problem might our hero have that our villain is creating? How might the hero defeat the villain? Talk with a shoulder partner about these ideas.

Planning a Fairy Tale The setting is important to a fairy tale. What is the main setting going to be? What events might happen between the problem and solution? What might the hero try that fails? Does the solution truly solve the problem? Does it result in a happily ever after?

Planning a Fairy Tale Now that you’ve practiced planning our class fairy tale, you’re ready to try your own! Follow the same steps and thinking to plan your own fairy tale!

Planning a Fairy Tale Partner Time! Partners- ask questions! What does your character want? Why does he/she want it? What will he/she do to get it? What might get in the way? Ask anything you’re wondering to help your buddy!

Fairy Tales- Day 4 Today we are going to stretch our fairy tale! We’re going to use our story map from yesterday to guide us as we think about each thing that happens in our story. We will draw a quick sketch of each scene with some important words we want to remember.

Story board for class fairy tale Use paper version

Story board for Your fairy tale Your turn!

Partners! Ask questions about confusing parts. How did the character get from here to there? Why did that happen? How is the character feeling? Authors revise to clarify your partner’s questions/concerns!

Fairy Tales- Day 5 Snapshots use very descriptive language to help paint a picture in the reader’s mind. It focuses on the smallest of details. As we read another fairy tale today, raise your hand if you think we’ve come to a snapshot moment. I’ll pause if I think we come to one, too.

Snapshots Find the snapshots page in your packet. Let’s read this snapshot and see what senses the author used.

Snapshots What are good times in a fairy tale to include a snapshot? What moments might we create snapshots in our class fairy tale? Why would it help the reader to put it there? Let’s add a snapshot moment to our story.

Snapshots So we remember where we want to put it, we need to come up with a special symbol. We will put the symbol on the top of this page and right where we need it to go in the story. When we come to that symbol, we will remember to

Snapshots Get with your partner. For each of your stories, find a good place for a snapshot. Then, write your snapshot moment using all five senses. Make your symbol so you know where to put this in the story!

Day 6 - Thought-SHots Thought- shots let you see into the character’s mind.

Thought-SHots As we read today, let’s look for places where the author gives you a peak into the character’s mind.

Thought-SHots Find the thought-shots page in your packet. Let’s look at this example together. What are some other situations where a thoughtshot might be important?

Thought-SHots Let’s take another look at our fairy tale plan. Look for places where a thought-shot might be a good idea. • Places with strong emotion • Places with big events happening • Places where the author wants the reader to see inside the character’s head

Thought-Shots You try! In Writing Partners Let’s take another look at your fairy tale plan. Look for places where a thought-shot might be a good idea. • Places with strong emotion • Places with big events happening • Places where the author wants the reader to see inside the character’s head

Fairy Tales- Day 7 Putting It All together Drafting Today we are going to look at our story board, and begin to write a draft of our story. We are going to notice our symbols and include our thought-shot and snapshot in just the right spot. Remember: The story board is just an outline… a plan. We need to turn it into a story by writing in sentences, having a beginning, middle, and end, and using descriptive language. We will type the draft of our story.

Putting It All together- Your Turn Drafting By: Mrs. Ursomarso’s Class X Write on every other line- leave spaces! Title X X X

Fairy Tales- Day 8 Red Flag Transitions As writers, we want to signal to our reader when something big is about to happen so they pay attention. This is called using Red Flag Transitions. A moment later… Before I knew it… In the blink of an eye… All of a sudden… Just as I realized… The next thing I knew… Just then… After that… Suddenly… Immediately… Soon after that… The next day… Later on… In the beginning… In the end… A long time ago… Long after that… Not long after that… Meanwhile… At the same time… That evening… That morning… That afternoon…

Red Flag Transitions On your draft, write in the blank lines to add your sentence (or part of a sentence) that uses the red flag transition you

Fairy Tales- Day 9 -ing words to start Another great way to start sentences is with –ing words. ·Carefully look at the fairy tale picture. ·Generate a list of vivid verbs that could be used to

-ing words to start sentences ·Carefully look at the fairy tale picture. ·Generate a list of vivid verbs that could be used to describe it.

-ing words to start sentences ·Come up with –ing vivid verbs that could start sentences in your story. ·Revise your story to include these vivid verbs.

Revise and Edit Reread your story. Check for: • Capitals • Periods • Commas • Apostrophes • Quotation marks

Revise and Edit with your buddy Sit elblow-knee-knee Story in the middle So we both can see! Read the story together to search for places that can be revised