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Fairy Tale Story Map

Fairy Tale Story Map
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Description

This story map is useful for practising the retell comprehension strategy and understanding that all stories should have characters, a setting, a beginning, middle and end. Students’ are encouraged to complete this activity as a group to assist with ideas before having a go individually.

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9E1LE01 9

Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9E1LE04 9

Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

AC9E1LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures

AC9E2LE03 9

Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways

AC9E2LY05 9

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

ACELT1581 8.4

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

ACELT1585 8.4

Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

ACELY1660 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

ACELT1591 8.4

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

ACELY1670 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

EN1-11D old

Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences

EN1-6B old

Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas

EN1-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning

VCELT205

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

VCELT209

Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme

VCELY186

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

VCELT219

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

VCELY222

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Use the completed story map to then write a succinct summary of the chosen fairy tale.

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