Fairy Tales
This topic covers story sequencing and structure, retelling and creating traditional tales as well as looking at real life royalty.
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Use JIT Infant Toolkit “Paint, Animate and Mix” tabs to retell a familiar tale and then ask the children to remix the fairy tale; you can change the settings by choosing one of the many different backgrounds found within j2e or you could change the main characters by exploring the characters found in j2e clip art folder.
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Use Junior Infant Toolkit ‘Turtle’ tab to take the Big Bad Wolf or Cinderella on a simple adventure using directional tabs.
You could ‘act’ this activity out in the real world asking the children to give each other directions from their carpet spacesor on large drawn grids in the outside area.
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Use the resource ‘Fairy Tales’ to explore one of six fairy tales:- ‘The Ginger Beard Man’, ‘Goldilocks’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘Red Riding Hood’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Each story has simple animated characters bringing the fairy tales to life, is differentiated four ways to help support all learners and each task links to five other tasks that relate back to the story. The resource also contains PDF resources that can be printed and would be fantastic to use within a small world environment.
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Use the literacy resources within ‘BusyThings’ to find a wealth of exciting activities to explore the topic of traditional fairy tales. The stories included are “The Three Little Pigs”, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, “The Gingerbread Man”, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Each story is retold in a fun manner, with follow up activities such as sequencing, picture ordering, building your own story scene. In addition there are a range of printable resources which can be used to enhance your small world, literacy or art area.
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Use the literacy resources within ‘BusyThings’ to find a wealth of exciting activities to explore the topic of traditional fairy tales. The stories included are “The Three Little Pigs”, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, “The Gingerbread Man”, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Each story is retold in a fun manner, with follow up activities such as sequencing, picture ordering, building your own story scene. In addition there are a range of printable resources which can be used to enhance your small world, literacy or art area.
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Explore the world of real life royalty, with ‘The Royal Mews’ resources. and discover what day to day work is like for key staff members within The Royal Mews. The resources features video explanations centuries old techies and historic documents.
Her Majesty the Queen has granted permission for LGfL to feature high resolution photographs and scans from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archive.
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Within the Resource Widgit you can find pre-made resources to support traditional tales including ‘The Three Pigs’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Red Riding Hood’, ‘Goldilocks’, ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Each story has a fully comprehensive pack with a variety of differentiated activities, which include the story, sequencing activities, worksheets, crossword, matching activities, drawing, storyboard and play-script, all using the Widgit communication system as a scaffold to support all learners.
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With the I-Board resources you can explore a range of traditional stories using the read along books, ‘Cinderella’ , ‘Anansi and Tiger’, ‘The Gingerbread Man’, ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘The Little Red Hen’ you can also explore retelling and sequencing each story using the digital tools provided.
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Linked fiction with nonfiction by exploring the world of real life royalty, with the “Queen Victoria” resource.
An amazing access to images from the RCT with lessons plans linked to each image.
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