Explores various fairy tales. Activity guides are provided. Students are encouraged to write their own fractured fairy tale and publish it..
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Scholastic
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Excellent source for developing language and communication through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.
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Aaron Shephard's Readers Theater
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Author Timothy Tocher explains to elementary/middle school level students how he created the characters in several of his stories.
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FictionTeachers
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Where children have fun learning to read. An excellent tool for improving a child’s literacy skills.
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Learn to Read at Starfall
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Interactive Tool allows students to demonstrate understanding of characters they read about. Can also be used as a prewriting tool for students to create their own characters in their own story writing.
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ReadWriteThink
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This resource contains several writing prompts and ideas for "stuck" writers! Includes prompts for narrative essays, stories, descriptive essays, and more.
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Houghton Mifflin English
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An interactive voiced over fairy tale that walks a student through the various elements of setting, characters and plot while telling a story. Students can click through and hear the story and explanations as they read the story and information.
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Annenberg Media
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Website is basically a powerpoint presentation of the elements of fiction, starting with the setting. Uses pictures and examples throughout. Very clear and easy to understand site.
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Elements of Fiction
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An interactive tool that allows students to choose 1 of 4 kinds of story maps and explain and organize their ideas about the elements of a story they are reading. Students can choose Character, Conflict, Resolution, Setting maps.
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ReadWriteThink
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