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How to Write a Fairy Tale

How to Write a Fairy Tale
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Description

Create your own imaginative fairy tale text. Use the templates to plan out your characters and setting before writing your own fairy tale story.

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

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

AC9E3LE03 9

Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative

AC9E3LE05 9

Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts

AC9E3LY03 9

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images

AC9E2LY06 9

Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words

AC9E2LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools

ACELY1671 8.4

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

ACELT1599 8.4

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

ACELT1601 8.4

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

ACELY1678 8.4

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

ACELT1593 8.4

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

ACELT1591 8.4

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

EN1-7B old

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

EN1-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers

EN1-3A old

Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies

EN2-2A old

Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language

EN2-8B old

Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter

EN2-UARL-01 new

Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts

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

EN2-HANDW-02 new

Uses digital technologies to create texts

EN2-SPELL-01 new

Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts

EN2-CWT-03 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN1-VOCAB-01 new

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

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

EN2-CWT-02 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN2-OLC-01 new

Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN1-SPELL-01 new

Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts

EN1-HANDW-01 new

Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts

VCELY231

Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

VCELT253

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

VCELY230

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

VCELT264

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features

VCELT265

Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

VCELT229

Build on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot

VCELT228

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

VCELT219

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

VCELY233

Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Act out your own fairy tale story. Create a storybook using your own fairy tale
story.

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