Fairy+Tales,+Fables,+Folk+Tales,+and+Myths+(Third)

Contributing Teacher(s): Lindsay Wright
Resources: Little Bird Tales Website Little Bird Tales: Tortoise and Hare Example
 * Mobile Lab needed for this lesson!

SPI 0301.3.16 Use technology to publish and present.
===ISTE Technology: 1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.===

Introduction/Problem: TSW learn the characteristics of and tell the difference between fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths.
===Procedures: TTW begin by having the students share what they know about the following folk lore: fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths. TTW show the Folk Lore PowerPoint while explaining the characteristics and examples of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths. TSW discuss any other examples they know of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths that are different from the ones shown in the PowerPoint. TTW hang up Folk Lore posters so students have a reference to look back out. TSW choose one of the types of folk lore to write their own story about. TSW fill out a Story Map Graphic Organizer to organize their ideas (TTW model filling out a Story Map Graphic Organizer using the example of The Tortoise and the Hare before students begin their own). TTW introduce students to the Little Bird Tales website by giving a brief overview of what it is and how to create an account. TTW show students an example of a finished story (The Tortoise and the Hare). TTW walk the students through creating their own tale (how to add pictures and text, how to add a page, how to save) using the finished Story Map Graphic Organizer that the teacher modeled how to create. TSW use the mobile lab to create a Little Bird Tale of their very own folk lore using their Story Map Graphic Organizers. TSW share their tales with the class once everyone is done and TCW choose if each tale is a fairy tale, a folk tale, a fable, or a myth using what they learned from the PowerPoint at the beginning of the lesson. TTW close the lesson by reviewing the characteristics of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths.===

Student Product/Work: By the end of the lesson, TSW create their own fairy tale, folk tale, fable, or myth using a Story Map Graphic Organizer and the Little Bird Tales website.
Little Bird Tale: The Tortoise and the Hare

===Assessment/Rubric: TSW be assessed on each of the following: a correctly completed Story Map Graphic Organizer and a correctly completed Little Bird Tale that follows their Story Map Graphic Organizer. TTW also assess through observation at the end of the lesson whether students can correctly identify their peers fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths. TTW use the Folklore Little Bird Tale Rubric to help assess.===