Analyzing Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood

Kindergarten CCGPS What is a Fairy Tale? Watch 2 Stories and Compare Venn Diagram Timeline What‘s your favorite? Story Elements A closer look Setting Characters Magic Problem Is it a fairy tale? Create a Story Map Resources

KINDERGARTEN CCGPS ELACCKRL1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. ELACCKRL2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. ELACCKRL3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. ELACCKRI1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. ELACCKRI2: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. ELACCKRI3: With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. ELACCKRL9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

WHAT IS A FAIRY TALE? A fairy tale is a make believe story for children that includes magic or magical elements. Analyzing a story and its elements can be difficult at first. Let’s do one together before you work independently.

Compare Two Stories Click on Pictures to see the stories. Little Red Riding Hood 1Little Red Riding Hood 2

Story 1 Story 2 Venn Diagram comparing the Stories Red is taking a cake to her granny She talks to the wolf in the woods The wolf ate granny and Red The hunter saves them Red is taking cookies to gran Told in song Gran is hiding under the bed Both Characters are Red Riding Hood, Wolf, and Granny Red is taking a treat to her Grandmother The wolf wants to eat Red

Story 1 Story 2 Red leaves to take a cake to granny Red meets a wolf in the woods The wolf eats granny The wolf eats Red The hunter saves Red and her granny Red leaves to take a cookies to granny Wolf pretends to be Red’s grandmother A woodcutter came and killed the wolf Granny comes out of her hiding place under the bed

Which Story is your Favorite?

STORY ELEMENTS OF A FAIRY TALE The setting: A fairytale is often set in a castle, a forest or a town Characters: Fairytales usually have at least one good character and a bad character or a villain. The characters are usually royalty or animals. Magic is often used There is usually a problem that must be solved

LET’S LOOK AT EACH ELEMENT AND SEE IF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD FITS Setting Characters Magic Problem Click on Each Element to see how it fits in our story

SETTING Fairytales are characterized by being set in a castle or a forest. Little Red Riding hood is set in a forest.

CHARACTERS Although the characters in Little Red Riding Hood are not royalty, one of the main characters is a talking wolf.

MAGIC There aren’t any magic wands in this story, but talking wolves and a hunter cutting a wolf open to find a little girl and a grandmother? Sounds like magic to me.

PROBLEM Is there a problem in the story? Absolutely! A wolf was pretending to be Red’s grandmother. That’s a pretty big problem.

SO DOES LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD MEET THE STANDARDS OF A FAIRY TALE? Let’s check our facts: SettingForest CharactersAnimals MagicYep ProblemOh yeah! Looks like the story meets all of our criteria!

CREATE A STORY MAP Story Maps

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