Fairytales, Fables, and Folklore
Use Wixie to inspire student exploration of fairytales, tall tales, fables, and folklore.
Creative use of technology can engage students in reading and allows them to write for the digital age.
Fabulous Fables
After reading examples of Aesop's fables, students use animals in their own story that shares a moral.
Lesson Plan
Rewrite Fairy Tales
Get students to understand the themes and style of fairy tales by asking to modernize or write a fractured fairy tales.
Legends and Tall Tales
After learning about hyperbole, students crafted their own tall tales.
Compare and Contrast
Read several versions of the same fairy tale to your students and then ask them to identify similarities and differences.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Retelling
Back to @SullyES_LCPS 3rd grade this afternoon to begin publishing our fairy tale writing on Wixie! @LStohlman @MrsGalvez_Sully @Ms_Ginty @MsEGlaze pic.twitter.com/cjiGmSiC47
— Chelsie Grant (@mrschelsiegrant) May 23, 2022 -
Applying our Learning
Third-grade Ss publishing their Fairy Tales using #Wixie. We are loving the Fairy Tale folder in Wixie. @RobertHunterES @FlemRarSchools pic.twitter.com/QEPFq84w7s
— Patricia Flavin (@patflavin1007) February 7, 2022 -
Fairy Tale Illustrations
We had fun making illustrations for our fairy tales using #Wixie! #frsd @CopperHillES @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/8odQ6xqPMs
— MrsMooreFRSD (@MrsMooreFRSD) April 2, 2020 -
Traits of Heroes and Villains
Ss use #wixie templates to create their fairy tale character & describe their hero/villains traits using adjectives. @Tech4Learning @MsKBruner THANK YOU @LRESPTA for the new tables in our lab! Ss ?? them! #LRelem pic.twitter.com/q1rfHiKf6u
— Beth Fisher (@BethFisherIFT) January 7, 2019 -
Folktales
4th grade students in Ms. Hines' class using Wixie to create folk tales. #bcpslh @CLETS_STAT pic.twitter.com/H6IfOWIpuu
— Lakecia Hines (@hines_lakecia) December 1, 2014 -
Fractured Fairy Tales
We had fun writing and sharing the "Fractured Fairy Tales" we wrote using Wixie. pic.twitter.com/JdTfnHbyoA
— MrsAdams5th (@lynnada16019030) September 10, 2021 -
Publishing
Back to @SullyES_LCPS 3rd grade this afternoon to begin publishing our fairy tale writing on Wixie! @LStohlman @MrsGalvez_Sully @Ms_Ginty @MsEGlaze pic.twitter.com/cjiGmSiC47
— Chelsie Grant (@mrschelsiegrant) May 23, 2022 -
Rewriting Fables to Connect to Now
Groups rewrite, illustrate, and narrate fav fable by relating it to their own lives w/WIXIE @delmendorf #BCPSLH pic.twitter.com/K6wdLNn4Zb
— Kelley (@kelleymcv) November 11, 2014 -
Fractured Fairy Tales
Wixie fractured fairy tales in grade two! pic.twitter.com/RT06yl8U4x
— NMES Tech (@NMESTech) February 27, 2018 -
Writing Fairy Tales
I love these settings Ss are illustrating using #Wixie @Tech4Learning Ss are working on writing their own fairy tales. @miss_mjester #LRelem pic.twitter.com/PIuhvLVldx
— Beth Fisher (@BethFisherIFT) January 17, 2019 -
Writing Our Own Fables
Mrs. Summers has her third grade students use Wixie to create an original fable! @Kelox3300 @kblannard @BCPSODL pic.twitter.com/zFuV7AHABM
— Dana Bisker (@DanaBisker_BHES) December 8, 2014
