Summary of Unit of Work:

The following unit allows students to explore traditional and fractured fairy tales in order to see stories from a different point of view. Students will use activity to explore fractured stories and to create their own mixed up fairy tales. Students will compare and contrast different stories while writing their own narratives. The focus text structure of the unit is Narratives and students will learn how to sequence their writing. Students will identify elements of fairy-tale stories, create exciting characters, sequence events, create and solve problems.

Australian Curriculum Links:

Year 1 English:

• ACELA1447 Text structure and organisation: Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways.
• ACELT1581 Literature and context: Discuss how authors create characters using language and images.
• ACELY1661 Creating texts: Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multi-modal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams.
• Construct simple literary and non-literary texts by planning and by using prior knowledge and experience to match an audience and purpose.
• Interpret how people, characters, places, events and things have been represented.

Year 2 English:

• ACELA1463 Text structure and organisation: Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose
• ACELT1589 Responding to literature: Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts.
• ACELY1671 Creating texts: Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multi-modal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose.
• Interpret how people, characters, places, events and things have been represented.
• Construct simple literary and non-literary texts by planning and by using prior knowledge and experience to match an audience and purpose.

Download Resources Below:

Fractured Fairytale Narratives Unit Plan (PDF)

Fractured Fairytale Narratives Unit Plan (DOCX for Editing)

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