Folktales: Fairy Tales

These sites offer many online fairy tales, plus ideas for studying and writing fairy tales. Read classic tales and new versions. Includes links to eThemes Resources on Fables and Tall Tales.

Grades

• 2,
• 3,
• 4

Links

• Fairy Tale Unit

  Read how one teacher incorporates fairy tales into her classroom.

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• Fairy Tales Reproducibles

  This site provides information about fairy tales that you can print out. Includes a Venn diagram, a graphing sheet, and an interactive crossword puzzle.

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• Scholastic: Fractured Fairy Tales

  This site lets students write fractured fairy tales after they have experienced them.

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• Hans Christian Anderson

  This site provides information about this fairy tale writer and links to many of his stories. Click on "Chronological List" and then choose a title to read one of his stories.

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• Ongoing Tales: Old Time Fairy Tales

  This is a large collection of fairy tales to read online. Also includes fables.

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• Childrenstory.com

  Read the fairy tales and look at the illustrations. Click on the bottom picture to move to the next page. You can listen to the stories in RealPlayer also.

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• Multicultural Fairy Tales

  This lesson plan has students not only learn about the characteristics of fairy tales, but also compare and contrast them.

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• Grimms' Fairy Tales

  Learn about the Grimm Brothers and their fairy tale writing. There are 12 tales to read online.

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• Russian Fairy Tales

  Choose to read the long or short version of these different Russian fairy tales.

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• Folktale Definition

  Read about the many forms of folktales that we read. This definition might be helpful to educators.

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• eThemes Resource: Folktales: Tall Tales

  This eThemes Resource has literature sites with online tall tales from America. Includes tall tales and information about Paul Bunyun, Davy Crockett, John Henry, Annie Oakley, and Slue-Foot Sue. Learn what tall tales are and their common characteristics.

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• eThemes Resource: Folktales: Fables

  This eThemes Resource include lists of fables by Aesop and other authors. There is also some background information about what fables are, how to write your own fable, etc.

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Education Standards

• MO
  • 1
  • 1.4
  • 1.5
  • 1.6
  • 1.9
  • 2
  • 2.1
  • 2.5
  • 3
  • 3.1
  • 3.2
  • 3.3
  • 3.6
  • 3.7
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
• DE
  • 4.2b.1
  • 4.2b.1.a
  • 4.2b.1.a

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Created: October 04, 2001 at 11:21 | Updated: July 01, 2011 at 17:24