This is a four week fairy tale fantasy unit to help kindergarten writers become confident in creating fairy tales story writing skills with a beginning, middle and end. Kindergarten students will learn how to add a hero and villain to their story, add made up characters and a magical setting.
This unit goes through the book making process slowly by allowing students to complete at their own pace. Students will be met where they are developmentally with 3 different book options. The headers at the top of each writing pages allows students to stay organized and for teachers to know at a glance what they are working on.
What's included:
- 4 weeks of lesson plans (20 lesson plans)
- EDITABLE DIGITAL DAILY SLIDES IN PP and Google Slides
- 20 anchor charts (fairy tale writing, fairy tale writing may have.., fairy tale settings, some fairy tale settings are real, sentence starters, fairy tale checklist, fairy tale writing, problem/solution, hero, villain, etc)
- 6 options for a rough draft
- 3 differentiated student book options with B, M or E labeled at the top of each page (pages have lines AND "roads" for handwriting)
- 40 Directed Drawings used: 5 versions of princesses, queen, king, 3 evil queen versions, villain, 3 versions of girl, good witch, bad witch, scarecrow, tin person, 2 dwarfs, mermaid, merman, pirate, fairy god mother, 2 fairies, dragon, beast, alligator, horse, frog, carriage, wand, castle, village, tower, hot air balloon, tornado, crown, and ship
- Parent notes and celebration hats for end of unit
- 10 premade prompts with vocabulary
- 7 premade mini books
How to Use:
- Refer to daily lesson plans which contains materials and mentor texts that you will need.
Want Amanda's new fairy tale writing mentor text? This is a physical book and is not included in the digital download. You can absolutely teach this unit without the mentor text, but having a clear, supporting text makes introducing a new skill even easier. Amazon paperback option here. Hardback option here.
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