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Unit/Topic: Fairy Tale Narrative

Key Learning Area: Good characters in fairy tales

Year Level: 3 and 4

ACARA Connections:
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the
reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose (ACELT1600 - Scootle )

Unit overview: During the students have been exploring fairy tales. Students have explored bad
characters, fairy tale elements, setting and other narrative features (speech marks, time connectives
and alternatives to said) . At the end of the unit students will apply their knowledge to create their
own fairy tales.

Lesson overview: In this lesson students will explore ‘good’ main characters in fairytales. The
students will add the ‘Main characters’ onto the word wall. The teacher will display the PowerPoint
‘Main characters’ and will ask question throughout the presentation. Students will create a ‘Missing
character’ poster for a main character we have studied. The students will use adjectives to describe
their appearance and personality and will illustrate a picture of the character representing the
adjectives.

Know:
Most Fairy tales have a good main character.

Main characters are in important part of a narrative as the story is based around them and they
encounter conflict.

Understand:
When writing a main character, it is important to include their personality and appearance.

Do:
Create a ‘Missing Persons’ poster for a main character of a fairy tale displaying

LESSON STRUCTURE:

Time Introduction (Set): Teaching Approaches

Strategic Questioning-
After reading a fairy tale during crunch sip story. The Will help promote deep
8mins teacher will ask students questions about the main thinking and will allow the
character in the story. teacher to check for
Potential questions include: understanding,
‘What was their personality like?’
‘What did they look like?’
‘Were they human/ non-human?’ Word wall- The word wall will
help students understand
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The teacher will then prompt students to consider the ‘Good’ character types in fairy
personality and appearance of the main characters from tales. During the lesson and
closely studied fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood throughout the unit, students
and Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. will have a list of main fairy
tale characters to refer to.
When discussing common main characters, the teacher
will ask students to place names onto the word wall.
Characters include ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and
‘Cinderella.’

Time Main Content: Teaching Approaches

ICT PowerPoint- Visual
The teacher will present students the PowerPoint, ‘Main representation of
Characters’ (Appendix 1). information. Alternative way
to communicate information.
During the PowerPoint the teacher will stop at some
questions to ask the students. Questioning- during the
PowerPoint stop to question
10min On slide 6- students will be asked to Think Pair and Share, student to check for
s the appearances, personality, and feelings of the understanding
character Jack from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ for a few
minutes. Think Pair and Share-
Students brainstorming ideas
Encourage students to look at the image on the screen with each other and them
when referring to Jacks appearance. share them with the class.

Time Main Content (Continued) Teaching Approaches

The students will then sit on the floor where the teacher Modelling- providing explicit
20min will explain their task. instruction and running
s through the worksheet.
Students need to create a ‘Missing person’ poster for a Example- providing a
main fairy tale character of their choice, (Little Red Riding completed example to model
Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack) to students.

The teacher will hand out blank copies to students Questioning to promote
(Appendix 2). The teacher will model their missing person thinking and understanding.
Poster (Appendix 3) which is about Princess Rapunzel. The
Teacher support: The
teacher will model each section of the poster and
teacher will support students
encourage deep thinking among students and giving
as they are creating their
examples from other fairy tale characters. The teacher will posters.
heavily model how their character description matches
the character illustration.

Ask students what characters they may be thinking of

doing and ask them to come up with some adjectives to
describe their character. This is also ensure students
understand the concept of a good character and redirect
students if they try to do a bad or side character.

Students will complete their posters at their desks, the

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teacher will walk around and support students. Names
may be placed on the whiteboard to support students
with spelling.

Fairy tale books will be placed on the floor to give

students an idea about potential characters and their
appearance. This will enhance student participation.

Time Conclusion: Teaching Approaches

Questioning- to check for
At the end of the lesson, students will share their understanding
5mins missing person poster. Students were share the
information, the description and picture. Sharing- Students sharing
During this time, the teacher may question students their work with their peers.
about their understanding of their selected main
character.

RESOURCES
(Include equipment required for class and/or for teacher preparation)
For teacher:
PowerPoint Presentation
Missing character worksheets x30
Completed Missing character sheet to model to students
Main character word wall cards

For students:
Missing Character poster template

DIFFERENTIATION CONSIDERATIONS
Modelling- Whilst sitting on the floor I will model the task to the students and show them my
example. The children will have their sheets in front of them and will discuss each box
Share Ideas- Whilst we are discussing the worksheet, I will ask students to share what character
they plan to do their missing poster on. The student will then share ideas thus embedding the task
and further examples to other students.
Poster Template: Having a premade template for the class will help students understand what
information needs to be included and how to display the information. Some students may have the
option to extend their knowledge of the character by providing a ‘What happened’ section.

ASSESSMENT
Formative-
Posters- The missing poster will demonstrate student’s knowledge about ‘good’ man characters
and the adjectives used to describe them. Students will also use the ‘Suspects’ and ‘Last seen’
sections to demonstrate their knowledge about the sequence of the story and the bad character.

Strategic questioning- to check for understanding.

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Appendix 1
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APPENDIX 2

Have you seen?

______________
Reward:
Description: Picture: Last Seen:
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Appendix 3

Have you seen?

Rapunzel
Reward: $100, a goat, and some vegetable seeds

Description: Last Seen:

Tall Taken by the witch
(Rumor is she is
Long blonde
locked in a tower.)
hair (reaches
the floor)
Green eyes
Beautiful
Suspects:
Kind
Has an angelic Evil Witch
singing voice (do not approach
she uses dark
magic)

What happened:
At a young age Princess Rapunzel was taken by her family by an evil
witch. Over the years, numerous people have reported seeing a
large tower in the forest with the missing Rapunzel inside. Some
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have even reported a witch to climb the tower using her hair.
Everyone could not find the tower again.