Fairy Tale & Folktales Unit - Writing, Craft & Reading Comprehension Activities

Are you looking for an engaging fairy tale unit? Check out this set of fairy tale and folk tale read aloud lesson plans, writing activities, crafts and more designed to effectively engage and educate young readers in grades Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd.

The books needed for this set of fairy tale and folk tale activities are:

• Kate and the Beanstalk by Marie Pope Osborne
• Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim
• Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith
• La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya

Each lesson has been differentiated to cater to the unique needs of each grade level. With our no-prep print-and-go lesson plans, planning and teaching has never been easier. Aligned to both CCS and TEKS, our lessons cover a range of reading, comprehension, sentence study, grammar, and crafts.

These are not your typical worksheets but actual lessons that guide you through the process of using read-alouds to teach the standards for reading comprehension through the science of research approach to instruction.

This comprehensive resource provides four weeks (20 days) of engaging and interactive reading lessons for students in Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade.

You will find a range of activities designed to help students improve their vocabulary, interactive writing, reading comprehension, response to literature, grammar, and more.

Our lessons are specifically designed to develop key skills such as predicting, inferring, retelling, summarizing, visualizing, making connections, comparing, problem & solution, character traits, synthesis, and opinion writing.

Additionally, our resource includes rubrics, craft projects, and assessments for each book, allowing you to effectively evaluate your students' progress and understanding of the material. With our engaging and interactive lessons, your students will be on their way to becoming confident and proficient readers.

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Here is a quick glance at the reading activities you will see with these fairy tales and folk tales:

★ vocabulary - tier two vocabulary lessons for each book

★ interactive writing for each folk tale and fairy tale

★ reading comprehension (predicting, inferring, retelling, summarizing, visualizing, making connections, comparing, problem & solution, character traits, synthesis, and opinion writing)

★ printable picture cards for retelling each fairy tale and folk tale

★ a PowerPoint version of each teaching slide to add to your interactive whiteboard

★ response to literature

★ grammar lessons

★ rubrics for each reading comprehension strategy

★ craft projects for each fairy tale and folk tale

★ assessment for each fairy tale and folk tale

The books needed for this set of fairy tale and folk tale activities are:

• Kate and the Beanstalk by Marie Pope Osborne
• Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim
• Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith
• La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya

View our other reading comprehension units:

K/1 ENGAGING READERS SET ONE

K/1 ENGAGING READERS SET TWO

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African Animals Nonfiction Bundle

2nd Grade Engaging Readers

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This resource will save you hours of work because EVERYTHING is all planned out in easy to follow lesson plans and the materials are included for you!

Just PRINT and TEACH! Each week focuses on one book and takes you through a variety of lessons to get your kids reading like never before.

SKU: 4451731