Fairy Tales

Our most recent genre study was Fairy Tales. We learned about the features of Fairy Tales:
- the tale is a type of fantasy, often about royalty
- one character is helped by another
- the tale has a happy ending
- often, people appear or events happen three times
- tale often features fantastic or magical creatures; some animals and objects can talk
- a helper and/or a "bad guy" may have magical powers

We've been reading a variety of fairy tales and discussing the features. We also looked at fairy tales from all over the world. We had the opportunity to compare two Cinderella-like stories. Here is the graphic organizer of our class discussions.

Ms. Leom's class discussion

Mr. Greniner's class discussion

Then, we took what we learned from our fairy tale study and wrote a narrative, using the super powers from three of our characters.

It has been a busy week of learning in fourth grade communications!