Fractured Fairy Tales and TPT Sale

Next week is Texas Public Schools' Week and it's the last week before Spring Break...YAY!
We are finishing up our Tall Tales, so we can begin our Fractured Fairy Tales.  My second graders always have a blast with these 2 units.  I will definitely be back to post pictures of our Tall Tale Journey...so stay tuned. 

I updated my Texas-Sized Fractured Fairy Tale unit in my TPT store.  I just added 3 more fractured fairy tales to the unit, so if you already purchased this- PLEASE re-download to get all the new goodies.

Click below to check it out at TPT.

Below is a list of all the fractured fairy tales included in this unit.  This resource contains literacy activities to accompany the read alouds.  The books will have to be purchased separately or checked out from the library.

Here are a few pictures of included activities:

EXCITING NEWS!!!

If you are heading over to Teachers Pay Teachers, the big sale is nearly here!!! On Thursday and Friday my entire store will be 20% off.  TPT is also offering an additional savings if you use PROMO Code TPT3, when you check out.  

 

As always, I love sharing!!! I'd love to give my Fractured Fairy Tale Unit to the first 3 readers that leave a comment.  Please leave an e-mail address and I will send it your way.

 

Texas Sized Fractured Fairy Tales

The Stars at Night,

Are Big and Bright,

Deep in the Heart of Texas.

I guess you could say, I have Texas on my mind!!! Well... next week is Texas Public Schools' Week, and I absolutely love teaching the Texas Sized Fairy Tale Unit that we teach during this time of year.   I am completely obsessed with fairy tales with a Texas Twist.   

It is almost my blogs 1 year anniversary, and my very first post was about this very same topic.  I had planned to put the project together for my TPT store, and it finally happened a year later! Yikes, time flies!!!

These are the fractured tales and original tales I use to teach this unit:

You don't have to live in Texas to enjoy these fun fill fractured tales.  They would also be a great addition to a western themed unit.   I will definitely be back to post pictures of student work.

Okay, I'm back...with pictures

 

 

This is the fun sequencing activity we did with Waynetta and the Cornstalk.  I love how some of them drew giant feet at the top of the cornstalk to look like they belong to a giant:

And finally, a page for them to write about their favorite Fractured Fairytale:

Fractured Fairy Tales

One of my favorite Texas Fractured Fairy tales is The Cowboy and the Black Eyed Pea. We read this version and the classic version, The Princess and the Pea. Then, we compared the two using a Venn Diagram. We followed up this activity with an art project. On Pinterest, I had seen several art projects done with the original story and I wanted to do something similar with the Texas version. I had the students create saddle bags with scrapbook paper and they stacked them up on their horse and placed their cowboy on top. 

Here is our finished product:

Texas Fractured Fairy Tales

For Texas Public Schools' Week, we talked all about Fairy Tales and Fractured Fairy Tales. Of course, we used fractured fairy tales with a Texas spin- like Bubba the Cowboy Prince to go along with Cinderella and The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea to go along with The Princess and the Pea. Here are a few pics from the inside of our booklets. I'll take more pics and post them soon.

*** I'm returning to this post a year later because I FINALLY added this unit to my TPT store.  The documents won't look exactly like these, I did a lot of updating!  However, the Comparison Graphic Organizer above, is still the same.  It's an oldie, but goody.  I just had to keep it the same.  I was not able to include the gingerbread story, because that would be a total copyright infringement.  I'm just going to read the trade book instead, even better! (I'm going to have to display the book on the Smartboard though, so we can still highlight rhyming words.)

Here is the link to my TPT store, if you'd like to check it out.