Comparing Fairy Tales and Folk Tales- Writing

I LOVE this unit. It’s not the easiest to teach, but fractured fairy tales and fractured folk tales are some of my absolute favorite books for comparing fairy and folk tales! The great thing about fractured fairy tales is that they’re recognizable to students, so the comprehension piece is already there for them. In this blog post, I’ll outline great books and a structured paragraph ‘essay’ for Comparing Fairy and Folk Tales

Here are affiliate links to all of these books on Amazon if you want to stock up!

• Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks
• Seriously, Cinderella is So Annoying
• Really, Rapunzel Needed a Haircut
• Frankly, I Never Wanted to Kiss Anybody
• No Lie, I Acted Like a Beast
• Honestly, Red Riding Hood was Rotten
• Trust Me, Jack’s Beanstalk Stinks
• Seriously, Snow White Was So Forgetful

• Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs 
• The Three Ninja Pigs
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
• Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians
• The Little Red Elf
• Bigfoot Cinderrrrella 

Check out what I did last year in first grade.

Here is what we are doing with our second graders this year. We are working with two topic paragraphs. We definitely have to use rubrics a lot! But they are getting it.

Here is a rubric.

It follows as:

• Topic sentence
• Detail sentence
• Further support
• Further support
• Detail sentence
• Further support
• Further support
• Conclusion

Here are some of the books on my lesson plans for the Comparing Fairy and Folk Tales unit!!

And, here’s another useful resource for comparing text using paired passages.