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Teaching Tips

National Tell A Fairy Tale Day

February 26, 2020

by: LWT staff

3 minutes

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”  ― Albert Einstein

Fairy tales are full of concepts essential for early childhood development as well as teachable moments for social-emotional development. Fairy tales should be a part of the curriculum in your class, but National Tell a Fairy Tale Day is a day to celebrate all of the benefits of fairy tales for children.

Fairy tales can:

  • Enrich vocabulary development and background knowledge.
  • Build early literacy skills (e.g., identifying rhyming words, storytelling, basic components of a story, story development, character development, an initial understanding of fiction and non-fiction stories, etc.).
  • Teach children social-emotional skills like problem solving, conflict resolution, teamwork, and helping others.
  • Build an initial understanding of diversity and acceptance.
  • Teach life lessons and encourage self-acceptance and empowerment.           
  • Foster the development of imagination and creativity.

The NEW Get Set for School Pre-K curriculum now offers read aloud books! Here are a few classic fairy tale books in our collection that embody teachable moments to share with the children in your class for National Tell a Fairy Tale Day:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

by Parragon Books

The Three Little Pigs/ Los Tres Cerditos

by Mercè Escardó i Bas

The Tortoise and the Hare

by Janet Stevens

The Gingerbread Man

by Catherine McCafferty

Writing activity: Have a discussion about fairy tales. Ask your students "What is your favorite fairy tale and why?" Have your students make a list of characters for their own fairy tale. Then give them a writing prompt for the setting, such as in a castle, in the woods, in a cave, in a ship, in a meadow. Then, have them draw or dictate their own tale!

 

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