But where exactly that someplace is may undergo a shift.
Change the SETTING.Įvery story has to happen someplace. In Jon Scieszka’s “The Stinky Cheese Man” the gingerbread man has become.
Change the CHARACTERS.įractured fairy tale characters don’t have to be the same as their traditional counterparts. Whether students are reading or writing fractured fairy tales, they’ll learn about key story elements as you present these seven ideas for how to fracture a fairy tale: 1. This list can be presented as part of a mini-lesson and posted as an anchor chart to provide a classroom resource throughout a fairy tales unit. How do you fracture a fairy tale? How does “Cinderella” become “Cinder…Really?” or how does “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” become “Goldilocks and the Three Aardvarks”? Using examples pulled from Jon Scieszka’s The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and from a few of my readers’ theater fractured fairy tale scripts, we’ll look at seven different ways to take a traditional fairy tale and turn it on its head.
