A guide for using our resources

Children will identify the features of a fairy tale.

Vocabulary: characters

Literacy Focus: genre

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• This illustrated collection contains many of the stories featured in the issue.

• Write a mash-up fairy tale as a class. Make a list of kids’ favorite fairy tale characters that you want to include. Then write what happens when they meet up!
• As you write your story, invite kids to come up and write words they know.

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Find the heading. Underline it.

2. Find the picture with the talking frog. Put a ✔ on it.

3. IIn the blue box, find the word that means people in a story. Circle them.

4. Look at the bottom bar. Find the pea in the princess’s bed!

Skill: art, writing

Materials: Make a Magic Wand skill sheet; markers and crayons; glue; straws, dowels, or chopsticks; decorations such as glitter, sequins, and curly ribbons (optional)

• Give each child a copy of the skill sheet. Have children complete the sentence "My magic wand can ______" on the back side of the star with anything they like, for example: clean my room, make my dog talk, or turn broccoli into candy.
• Next have kids cut out both stars and decorate them with markers and crayons. They can also add sparkly decorations like glitter and sequins. If you like, you can also have children paint the handle of the wand (a drinking straw, wooden dowel, or chopstick).
• When everything is dry, have kids glue the front and back sides of the star together, sticking the handle in the middle. You can also tie a thin, curly ribbon around the handle just beneath the star. Invite kids to use their wands for fairy tale-themed dramatic play.