End of Year Fractured Fairy Tales w/ Readers Theater Reading Comprehension More

Five Fractured fairy tales for the end of the year. Activities including readers theater scripts, reading comprehension, literature response, interactive notebook, figurative language, fluency, plot diagram and other engaging activities. Science of Reading embedded in a resource that is Google slides, digital and print. Four teaching presentations, dozens of activities and an optional lesson plan. All with standards-aligned activities. Great standards check or review for the end of the year.

Differentiated with two versions of each story.

Get ready for summer with these engaging standards-based fiction activities for the end of the year featuring fairy tale favorites wrapped up in a whole unit of engaging activities. PDF and Google Slides print and go reading comprehension, inference, main idea summary, group activities, plot, summary, sequence, and more. Check out the preview for details!

Individual activities, group lessons, think-pair-share and more multidisciplinary fun that is naturally differentiated. Plus the elements of fairy tales. Students also practice cognitive flexibility and work on executive function by re-writing endings and thinking through lessons.

Students love these fractured versions of their favorite tales.

Teacher Notes and Optional Lesson Plan

Prep: Divide class into groups by Readers Theater Script

• Jack, Cinderella, and the Algebra Final (RT page 11) – 6 parts
• The Wicked Witch of Summer (RT page 43) – 9 parts
• Summer Jobs, Captain Hook and a Dragon (RT page 75) – 12 parts
• The County Fair (RT page 103) – 9 parts
• The County Fair Figurative Language

NOTE: I like to let my students work in teams or pairs. I let them talk but tell them the conversation needs to be about the stories. I walk around and ask story questions while they work.

I work through the unit over two weeks. I divide the class into groups and assign parts based on the scripts. The scripts are differentiated – some parts are big, and some contain fewer lines.

Lesson 1: Elements of Fractured Fairy Tale

• Elements of a Fairy Tale vs. Fractured Fairy Tale Google Slide Presentation: with worksheet
• Then partner activity: “Choose Your Favorite Fairy Tale,” fill out the interactive notebook graphic organizer on page 7
• Discuss favorite fairy tales and how they can be twisted.

Lesson 2: Read together, alone, in pairs or groups “Jack, Cinderella, and the Algebra Final.” I usually do pairs.

• Do literature response activities
• Do Fluency – there are three levels of the summary for fluency practice differentiation
• DO GOOGLE SLIDE OR PDF – STORY ELEMENTS
• Do Comprehension
• Interactive Notebook pages (INP)
• HAVE THIS GROUP PERFORM “Jack, Cinderella, and the Algebra Final.”
• Think Pair Share

Lesson 3: Read together, alone, in pairs or groups “The Wicked Witch of Summer.” I usually do pairs.

• Do Literature Response
• Comprehension
• Do Interactive Notebook Pages
• HAVE THIS GROUP PERFORM ”The Wicked Witch of Summer” Readers Theater
• Think Pair Share

Lesson 4: Read together, alone, in pairs or groups “Summer Jobs, Captain Hook and a Dragon.”

• Do Comprehension
• Do Literature Response
• Do Interactive Notebook pages
• HAVE THIS GROUP PERFORM “Summer Jobs, Captain Hook and a Dragon.”
• Think Pair Share

Lesson 5: Read together, alone, in pairs or groups “The County Fair.”

• Do Comprehension
• DO PLOT DIAGRAM – THERE IS A PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDE PRESENTATION
• Do Literature Response
• Do Interactive Notebook pages
• HAVE THIS GROUP PERFORM “The County Fair.”
• Think Pair Share

Lesson 6: Expand the Story – Students work together to write their own narrative that expands on “The County Fair” – “The County Fair Next Year.”

Lesson 7: Read aloud “The County Fair Figurative Language.”

• Assign Figurative Language Worksheet
• Review Worksheet together using PDF presentation or GOOGLE SLIDE PRESENTATION

Lesson 8: Have students do page 124 comparing and contrasting their fractured fairy tale narrative to its readers theater version.

Alternative Option: If I am working with a group of students with learning differences – we work through all of the stories together.

Elements of Fairy Tale Interactive Notebook Pages page 6

There is an option presentation in PDF and in Google Slides:

Elements of a Fairy Tale vs. Elements of Fractured Fairy Tales:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jack, Cinderella and the Algebra Final page 8

Story

Story Version 2 at LL 450L – ATOS 3.22

Readers Theater

Comprehension Assessment

Fluency LL 300L – ATOS 2.32

Fluency LL 650L – ATOS 4.5

Fluency LL 1100L – ATOS 8.0

Constructed Response Question – Story Elements

Theme, Setting, Character Traits, Main Idea, Problem, Solution Student Page page 20

Corresponding PowerPoint

Interactive Notebook Pages

Compare and Contrast

Theme

Character Traits

Inference – Dialogue

Inference Questions Specific to the Story

Key Idea and Details

Theme

Sequence of Events

Point of View

Think Pair Share – Characters, Plot and Theme page 37

The Wicked Witch of Summer page 38

Story

Story Version 2 at LL 350L – ATOS 2.53

Readers Theater page 43

Comprehension Assessment

Constructed Response Questions – Inference, Theme, Character, Dialogue, Figurative Language

Theme, Setting, Character Traits, Main Idea, Problem, Solution Student Page page 49

Interactive Notebook Pages

Compare and Contrast

Theme

Character Traits

Inference – Dialogue

Inference Questions Specific to the Story

Key Idea and Details

Theme

Sequence of Events

Point of View

Think Pair Share – Characters, Plot and Theme

Summer Jobs, Captain Hook and a Dragon 1.0 page 67

Comprehension Assessment page 69

Summer Jobs, Captain Hook and a Dragon 2.0 – 410L-600L – ATOS 3.95 page 71

Comprehension Assessment page 73

Readers Theater page 75

Whole Class Activity – Compare and Contrast page 77

Theme, Setting, Character Traits, Main Idea, Problem, Solution page 79

Interactive Notebook Pages

Compare and Contrast

Theme

Character Traits

Inference – Dialogue

Inference Questions Specific to the Story

Key Idea and Details

Theme

Sequence of Events

Point of View

Think Pair Share – Characters, Plot and Theme

The County Fair page 95

Reading Comprehension page 97

The County Fair V.1 LL 410L-600L – ATOS 3.5 page 99

Reading Comprehension page 101

Readers Theater page 103

Interactive Notebook Pages

Key Ideas and Details RL.2 – Theme Development Interactive Notebook page 105

Story Events page 107

Plot Diagram – there is a PDF presentation as well as a Google Slides presentation at

Plot Diagrams for Versions 1 and 1 of “The County Fair” page 110

Think Pair Share – “The County Fair page 114

Expand the Story – Write a Narrative – “The County Fair Next Year” page 115

Elements of a Fairy Tale Interactive Notebook Page page 117

Analyze the Impact of the Author’s Choice page 118

Compare and Contrast Two Versions General Worksheet page 120

The County Fair Figurative Language page 121

Figurative Language Worksheet – there is a corresponding PDF presentation as well as a Google Slide presentation - Figurative Language Language Presentation for worksheet page____

page 123

Compare and Contrast – Story vs. Readers Theater page 125

Fluency Research and Script page 124

GOOGLE SLIDE LINKS:

Elements of a Fairy Tale vs. Elements of Fractured Fairy Tales:

Elements of Fiction “Jack, Cinderella, and the Algebra Final” Presentation:

The County Fair Plot Diagram:

Figurative Language Language Presentation for worksheet page____