1. Teaching Fairy Tales Through Comparative Literature
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2. Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are full of binary oppositions such as good/bad and black/white.
Fairy tales :
involve fantastic forces and beings
offer insights into an introduction to arts for the child.

3. Comparative literature through teaching fairy tales bridges the gap between:
school and social/cultural psychological lives of learners.
It is the study of texts across cultures.

4. Why Comparative Literature?
Analysis of literary texts from a comparative perspective.
Focus is on the significance of culture in the textual analysis.

5. Why Culture? Analyzing target culture provides:
a) a perspective with the metaphorical cultural space in the literary text.

6. Why Comparative Literature?
Comparing and contrasting characters and plots help learners improve analytical skills.
Study of different texts (side by side) enables young learners how to interpret :
a) common points
b) differences

7. Use of Different Models in Teaching Fairy Tales
The cultural heritage model
The social sciences model
The reflective inquiry model

8. Purpose of Using Fairy Tales
Providing aesthetic experiences for children
Stimuli for both intellectual and emotional responses
Enhancing the language development when they are provided with plays, songs, and games

9. Building the gap between social life and literary work
Developing moral values while analyzing, comparing, and constrasting texts

10. Pre-reading Activities
Display students the pictures from the books
Ask them to guess what will happen.
Tell the stories to the students by:
reading them from the books or
displaying pictures.
The aim of this activity is to help learners to guess the context from the pictures .

11. While reading Write down the most significant words
Ask students to guess the meaning of the words
Divide the learners into groups, and organize the activity like a game or contest
You can also display the pictures and ask students to match the words with the right pictures

12. You can choose the words that describe the characters.
Ask students to match the words with the characters.

13. Instructional Techniques for Comparative Teaching of Fairy Tales
Comparing the characters such as bad or good characters in both tales
Comparing the plots
Analyzing universal themes such as justice and injustice; luck and bad luck and so on.

14. Ask the students to recreate the end of the both tales.
While organizing the ending, ask them to change the behavior of the bad characters and turn them into good ones.