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Mary Frances Van Houten

FRIT 8530Technology Integration Unit

Summer 2011


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Title of Unit Fairy Tales Grade Level 4th Grade

Standard:Description: ELA4R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidenceof a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational

texts.

Elements:Critical Component: For literary texts, the student identifies the characteristics ofvarious genres and produces evidence of reading that:

a. Relates theme in works of fiction to personal experience.b. Identifies and analyzes the elements of plot, character, and setting in stories read,written, viewed, or performed.e. Identifies and shows the relevance of foreshadowing clues.f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and

supports them with elaborating and convincing evidence from the text.h. Identifies themes and lessons in folktales, tall tales, and fables.

Critical Component: For informational texts, the student reads andcomprehends in order to develop understanding and expertise andproduces evidence of reading that:

g. Makes perceptive and well-developed connections.

Understandings and Six Facets of Understanding:

Students will understand that:

U1 Fairy tales are universal stories found throughout the world. (Explain)

U2 Fairy tales and other types of fantasy literature can parallel humansituations. (Apply, Explain, Perspective, Empathy, Self-knowledge)

U3 Foreshadowing helps readers to make predictions. (Interpret, Explain)

U4 There are at least 6 elements to a fairytale. (Explain)

U5 A fractured fairytale is a spin-off from the original. (Apply, Explain)

Related Misconceptions: That fairy tales, fables, folk tales, and tall tales are all the same thing.


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Essential Questions:

Overarching Questions:

Q1 (Explanation) How can youdetermine what the setting, plot, and

characters are within a story? Q2 (Interpretation) How does the use

of foreshadowing help the reader predictand infer what will happen within astory?

Q3 (Application) How could we usefairy tales to overcome negativesituations in our lives?

Topical Questions:

Q4 (Explanation) How doesreading a work of fantasy

affect you personally? Q5 (Self-Knowledge) What

insight can you gain fromreading different genres ofliterature from around theworld?

Q6 (Perspective) What arethe strengths and weaknessesof the characters?

Q7 (Empathy) What would itbe like to walk in the evil-

characters shoes?

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences

Week 1

1. Watch a Fractured Fairy Tale of Cinderella on the Smartboardhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYA(H, Tech) (Day 1)

2. Have students brainstorm a list of known fairytales. Teacher records list on theSmartboard to be used at a later time. (E) (Day 1)

3. Introduce the Essential Questions and discuss the unit and performance tasks(Cinderella Fractured Fairy Tale). (W, Q1-7) (Day 1)

4. Give a pretest over fairytales (online). (Teacher will use the pretest to assessstudents). http://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.html (E-2, Tech) (Day1)

5. Introduce key vocabulary for the unit on fairytales. More vocabulary may beadded at a later time. Students will organize a fairytale element flip book usingRead, Write, Think that will be added to throughout the unit.http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/ (E, O, Tech) (Day 2)

6. Read two different versions of a fairy tale: The Frog Prince and The Frog Prince

Continued. View the podcast of the fairytale elements.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMThe students will take notesthroughout the podcast.The students will review what they know about the twostories and complete their flip book picking out at least 6 elements of eachstory. The teacher will observe the students work by assessing the flip books.(E, E-2, R, U4, Q1, Q6, Tech) (Day 2)

7. Read two more different versions of a fairytale: The Three Little Pigs and TheTrue Story of the Three Little Pigs. Allow students to review and discuss theelements of these stories. Have students make corrections if necessary. (R)(Day 3)

8. Give a quiz over the elements of fairytales (open-ended questions). (E-2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYAhttp://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.htmlhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYAhttp://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.htmlhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEM


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Week 3

1. Using a graphic organizer, students will choose an event from their own lives orlives of someone that they know, and create a fairy tale based on the situation.Each fairytale must have a problem and resolution and how it connects to theplot of the story. Have students check their planned fairytale against the list of

common fairytale elements. Reflect and revise plans if necessary. (U2, Q4,R, T, E, E-2)(Day 1)

2. For the more visual learner, have the students evaluate the illustrations of thefairytales and compare and contrast how they add value to the story. (E, T)(Day 2)

3. Students will write and illustrate their own fairytale. (E, T)(Day 3)4. Arrange students in pairs or small groups, and pass out copies of the Fairytale

Peer Review form. Model how to complete the form with a picture book.Teacher circulates providing feedback and support. (R)(Day 4)

5. Independently, have students create a multimedia scrapbook of their fairytale

using Photostory3. (Tech, T, E)(Day 4 & 5)6. Student will take an exam over the story characteristics and elements of a fairytale. The teacher will assess the students understanding and pull thosestudents that have not met the standard. These students will be met withmore direct instruction and be retested at a later date. For tactile learners,have them pick out the elements of a fairytale using sentence strips and matchthem up. (E-2, T, R) (Day 5)

7. Conclude the unit with a self-assessment reflection paper (Student andTeacher).(R, E-2)(Day 5)

8. Students will have WebQuest completed by this day. (Tech)(Day 5)

References and Resources:

Fractured Fairytale Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYA

Fairy Tale Pretest http://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.html

Fairy Tale Element Flipbookhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/

Fairy Tale Element Podcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEM

Fairy Tale Element Quizhttp://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/eann1/Day%205-%20Quiz.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYAhttp://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.htmlhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMhttp://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/eann1/Day%205-%20Quiz.htmhttp://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/eann1/Day%205-%20Quiz.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JXlhDDLYAhttp://triviapark.com/quizzes/fairytales/q1.htmlhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQg3Q56nmEMhttp://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/eann1/Day%205-%20Quiz.htmhttp://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/eann1/Day%205-%20Quiz.htm


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Cinderella Venn Diagram

Acrobat Document

Cinderella WebQuest http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cinderella

Fairy Tale Graphic Organizer

Acrobat Document

Fairy Tale Peer Review Formhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson42/Fairy_tale_peer_review.pdf

Fairy Tale Testhttp://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2787711fea6f0.html

Notes to the Instructor

The teacher will pull students that she sees in need of extra remediationthroughout the lesson, during small group time. Any clarifications andreteaching may be discussed during this time. During the small grouptime, students will be allowed to rotate through learning centers that focuson fairytales: computers (fairytale websites), reading center (books aboutfairytales from around the world), writing center (writing different endingsto common fairytales), dramatization (acting out fairytale elements),

listening center (listening to fairytales read by famous people), etc.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cinderellahttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson42/Fairy_tale_peer_review.pdfhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson42/Fairy_tale_peer_review.pdfhttp://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2787711fea6f0.htmlhttp://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cinderellahttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson42/Fairy_tale_peer_review.pdfhttp://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson42/Fairy_tale_peer_review.pdfhttp://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2787711fea6f0.html

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