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Cultural Fairytales Teaching Unit

This 2nd grade unit focuses on cultural fairytales and fables. Students will learn about why stories are important to culture. They will identify the five elements of plot and use them to recount details from stories and identify morals. Students will compare different cultural versions of folktales. For assessment, students will fill out plot diagrams, answer questions about stories, and fill out Venn diagrams comparing tales. As a final project, students will work in groups to write and film their own original story that includes a moral.

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Cultural Fairytales Teaching Unit

This 2nd grade unit focuses on cultural fairytales and fables. Students will learn about why stories are important to culture. They will identify the five elements of plot and use them to recount details from stories and identify morals. Students will compare different cultural versions of folktales. For assessment, students will fill out plot diagrams, answer questions about stories, and fill out Venn diagrams comparing tales. As a final project, students will work in groups to write and film their own original story that includes a moral.

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Cultural Fairytales and Fables unit

Grade: 2nd

Subject: Reading, Writing, Read Alouds, Compare and Contrast,


Reading Comprehension Elements of a Story, Moral
Big Idea:

● Teach students about why stories are important to


our lives and culture

Essential Questions:

● How do events in a story contribute to the central


message?
● How does the character’s point of view contribute to
our understanding of a story?
● What lessons can be learned from fairytale and
folktale?
● How can we apply those lessons in our personal lives?
● How does culture influence the way a story is told?

Objectives:

● Students will be able to identify the 5 elements of a


plot.
● Students will use their knowledge to recount key
details from the text and identify the moral or lesson.
● They will be able to compare culturally different
versions of folktales and fairytales.
● Students will use their knowledge of the 5 elements of
a plot to create their own story and include one moral
or lesson in it.

Teaching Methods:

Lessons will begin with interactive scenarios or videos that


relate to the reading to capture the students’ attention.

Lessons will then feature Shared Reads and Read Alongs


with YouTube links. These methods give students equal
access to more challenging texts and provide them with the
necessary support to read with the whole class. Graphic
organizers and online assessments will be used to identify
plotlines, compare stories, and assess student
comprehension. These methods were chosen to help
students engage in group discussions and answer
comprehension questions with references from the text.
Graphic organizers will be
Formative Assessments:

● Students will fill out a plot diagram that features


the Five Elements of a Story.

● Students will verbally answer comprehension


questions during Shared Reads and complete
online assessments for each version of a fairytale
through Quizziz.

● Students will fill out a Venn Diagram to compare


the stories “The Boy who Cried Wolf” and “Wolf
Wolf.” They will also complete a 3 way Venn
DIagram for culturally different versions of
Cinderella: “Sootface,” “Yeh Shen,” and the
Disney/American version of “Cinderella.”

Summative Assessment:

As a summative assessment, the students will create


their own story that features the 5 Elements of a Story
and include an underlying moral or lesson that has
been identified in the previous stories we read in class.
They will write a short script in groups that have been
chosen by the teacher and create a FlipGrid video that
will be shown to the whole class. At the end of each
video, there will be a class discussion on the plotline,
what was the moral, and which story did the moral
connect to.

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