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Reading Fairy Tales in Reading Fairy Tales in the Classroomthe Classroom
Reading Fairy Tales in Reading Fairy Tales in the Classroomthe Classroom
A Teacher’s Guide to Understanding the Importance A Teacher’s Guide to Understanding the Importance of Using Fairy Tales in the Classroomof Using Fairy Tales in the Classroom
By By John BrannanJohn Brannan
EDU 291 Section 1979EDU 291 Section 1979
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Genre of Children’s Literature Fairy Tales
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What about fairy tales?
Let’s look at• misconceptions concerning fairy tales
• three primary examples of fairy tales: Snow White, Cinderella, and Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
• misconceptions concerning fairy tales
• examples of fairy tales to use in the classroom
• alignment of fairy tales with the state standards
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Childhood Memories
Think about a Fairy Tale that you remember most vividly from your childhood. – Why do you think you remember it?
– Did the characters teach you anything?
– Did you want to be like a character from the Fairy Tale?
– Did the Fairy Tale become part of a daydream for you?
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Reasons to use Fairy Tales in the classroom
Fairy tales – help children gain a feeling of
self-worth– foster a sense of succeeding
when choosing good over evil• suggest images that help children
to direct their daydreams • allow children the opportunity to
master life’s difficulties and to succeed
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The Misconceptions Concerning Fairy Tales
• Fairy Tales introduce children to images and themes that are dark and scary.
• Fairy Tales are too difficult for children to understand.
• Fairy Tales impose morality upon children too young to understand.
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1. Fairy Tales help Children to gain a feeling of Self-
Worth
• Fairy Tales offer children a choice to identify with a character.
• This choice is not based on who is right or who is wrong.
• The choice is based on who arouses the child’s sympathy.
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Examples of Choices From the Fairy Tale Snow White
• The Queen is evil and powerful but her power is temporary.
• Snow White is good and sweet.• Snow White usurps the Queen’s power.• Snow White becomes the hero of the
story.• Children identify with the hero.
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Good and Evil in Cinderella
• The Wicked Step-Mother and Step-Sisters are powerful in the beginning of the story.
• Cinderella’s goodness of character is demonstrated throughout the story.
• Cinderella becomes the powerful hero in the end.
• Children identify with the hero of the story.
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Fairy Tales present the polarities of character, such as good and evil,
and this allows the child to comprehend easily the differences between the
two.
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Learning Self-Worth from Fairy Tales
• Children learn to identify with a hero and to emulate that hero’s goodness.
• Children learn from the hero’s conflicts and dilemmas.
• Children encounter their own needs to be loved and their fear of being thought worthless.
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2. Choosing Good over Evil
• Fairy Tales are not moral tales but rather tales of succeeding in life.
• Children learn to meet life with a belief in the possibility that they can succeed.
• Fairy Tales present the triumph of good over evil.
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Examples from Snow White
• Snow White is isolated and lonely due to the evil queen.
• Snow White goes out into the world and becomes surrounded by friends.
• Snow White is loved and, in the end, succeeds by gaining a life partner.
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Examples from Cinderella
• Cinderella is lonely and isolated in the beginning of the story.
• The evil step-mother and step-sisters are powerful.
• Cinderella is surrounded by friends and has a fairy god-mother to help her succeed over evil.
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Examples from Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters
• Nyasha has an evil sister who wishes to make Nyasha a servant.
• Nyasha remains true to her sense of goodness and is confident in herself.
• Nyasha’s goodness overcomes her sister’s evil ways.
• Nyasha marries the Prince.
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3. Fairy Tales Guide and Shape Children’s
Daydreams
• Fairy Tales express feelings of loneliness, isolation, and fear.
• Fairy Tales give children an example of a hero who overcomes these feelings.
• Fairy Tales shape children’s daydreams by helping children to sympathize with the hero.
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Examples From Fairy Tales
• Children see that in the beginning of the story the evil character has power.
• However, the good character is able to overcome the trickery and bad treatment in order to succeed.
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4. From Daydreaming to Success
• Fairy Tales allow the imagination to deal with and overcome fears.
• Fairy Tales show the evolution of an ordinary person.
• From isolation and loneliness to happiness and belonging in the world.
• The Fairy Tale hero is successful out in the world.
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Examples From Fairy Tales
• Snow White, Cinderella, and Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters show how characters overcome isolation and loneliness.
• Each character succeeds and becomes an example to the reader that goodness can triumph over evil.
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Dispelling Misconceptions of Fairy
Tales
• Fairy Tales help children to deal with fear and anxieties by offering compelling stories of success.
• Fairy Tales offer characters who are clearly drawn as either good or evil.
• Fairy Tales are not moral tales, but rather tales that assure the reader that they can succeed in life.
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Using Fairy Tales in the Classroom
• Fairy Tales are excellent stories to share with children.
• Fairy Tales help teach children how to overcome their own fears and anxieties.
• Fairy Tales can be used in lesson plans to reinforce the State Standards.
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Listing of Fairy Tales to read in the classroom
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs• Cinderella• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters• Little Red Riding Hood• Lon Po Po
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Aligning Fairy Tales with State Standards
• Fairy Tales help students understand plot, setting, and character.
• Fairy Tales help students understand beginning, middle and ending in stories.
• Fairy Tales can be used to develop critical thinking skills.
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Conclusion:
• Fairy Tales are excellent stories to read to students.
• Fairy Tales are easily used in lesson plans and can teach state standards.
• Fairy Tales help children to learn about themselves.
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Works Cited
• Gruppen, Egmont. Snow White. Danbury: Grolier Enterprises, 1995.
• Gruppen, Egmont. Cinderella. Danbury: Grolier Enterprises, 1995.
• Steptoe, John. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale. New York: Scholastic, 1987.
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Web Sites and Teacher Resources about Fairy
Tales
• http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html
• http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/explore/myths.htm
• http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
• http://www.bsu.edu/classes/vancamp/genres.html