Grade 2 ,Writing and Adapting Fairy Tales, Once Upon a Time...

In this Writing class ,Writing and Adapting Fairy Tales the students will be able to identify reoccurring elements that make a story a fairy tale and  create their own version of two fairy tales using  narrative writing craft and strategies. 
     The class content is presented using an editable digital writers notebook and writing strategies through the Writing Workshop mini-lesson model of instruction. The lessons reflect a range of the writing  common core state standards for second grade level. The components of each lesson includes the following: a group meeting, a connection, teaching point, teaching-demonstration and explicit writing instruction  with a discussion,  an active engagements-students apply and practice new skills, link- recap learning, small group instruction & conferring, mid- workshop teaching- reinforcement of skills, and a share meeting as the conclusion to each lesson.   
     The students will be introduced to the craft of writing  fairy tales through group writing using the class writing about Cinderella, The Brothers Grimm original fairy tale. The unit makes a connection between previously learned narrative writing skills and continues to build on these skills in writing. The class introduces the students to the writing workshop structure and helps students develop writing strategies and skills in developing strong storytelling writing skills. Students learn to generate ideas for writing and adapting a fairy tale, to make a plan, and carry out their writing task. The students are guided to ask and respond to questions as they write to develop  new writing goals. They learn to build onto their writing skills while writing their adaptations of their fairy tale.
 
          The following meeting titles will be presented through power point presentation and our bitmoji classroom where students will meet to conduct their writing and complete their assignments using their Writing  Fairy Tales Digital Notebooks I created for this class. 
Writing and Adapting Fairy Tales
Meeting 1, Introduction to Writing And Adapting Fairy Tales
Meeting 2, Ways Authors Adapt Fairy Tales - Planning a Fairy Tale
Meeting 3, Writing The Beginning- Once Upon a Time...
Meeting 4, Adding Descriptions And Dialogue to Fairy Tales 
Meeting 5, Adding the Narrators Voice to Fairy Tales
Meeting 6, Planning a Second Fairy Tale.
Meeting 7,  Writing a Second Fairy Tale And Using All You Know  
Meeting 8, Conclusion, Celebration:  Mirror, Mirror on The Wall, Sharing Time