Teaching
Fairy Tales and Fables
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Fairy tales are fanciful tales of legendary deeds and creatures that are usually intended for children. A fable is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal characters that speak and act like human beings.
Teachers, parents, librarians and students, as well as anyone interested in folk tales and fairy tales will find numerous ways to explore the subject via this Pathfinder. Resources can be found primarily in the local Broward County Public Libraries. Resources (with the exception of reference materials) from these libraries are available through inter-library loan at any Broward County Public Library branch or by using their web-page.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
The following list is a sample of the subject headings as related directly to fairy tales.
Children—Books
and reading
Fairy tales
Fairy tales—Film and video adaptations
Fairy tales—History and criticism
Fairy tales—Indexes
Folk literature—History and criticism
Folklore and children
Folklore and children—History and criticism
Literature and society
Tales
Tales—Classification—Bibliography
Tales, European—History and Criticism
The following list is a sample of words that can be used when searching that are related directly to fairy tales.
· Customs
· Fables
· Fairy Tales
· Folklore
· Oral traditions
· Proverbs
Dewey Decimal Classifications:
The Broward County Public Library System uses the Dewey Decimal classification system. Books of fairy tales may be in a variety of places but most fairy tales books will be located at call numbers beginning with 398, the Dewey number for folklore, especially 398.2 up to 398.5. There may also be some collections of fairy tales in the short story section, with the call number 808.83.
Axelrod, A., Oster, H., & Rawls, W. H. (2000). The Penguin dictionary of American folklore. New York, NY: Penguin Reference. (R 398.097303 AX)
Page, M. F., & Ingpen, R. R. (1987). Encyclopedia of things that never were: Creatures, places, and people. New York, NY: Viking. (R 398.4 PA)
Watts, L. S. (2007). Encyclopedia of American folklore. Facts on File library of American literature. New York, NY: Facts On File. (R 398.097303 WA)
Brunvand, J. H. (1996). American folklore: An encyclopedia. Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1551. New York, NY: Garland Publishers. (R 398.20973 AM)
Green, T. A. (1997). Folklore: An encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (R 398.03 FO v. 1, R 398.03 FO v. 2)
Ayto, J. (2007). Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable. London: Weidenfeld Reference. (R 423.1 BR)
Simpson, J., & Roud, S. (2000). A dictionary of English folklore. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (R 398.20942 SI)
Andersen, H. C., & Hersholt, J. (1949). The complete Andersen: All of the 168 stories by Hans Christian Andersen. New York, NY: The Heritage Press. (R 398.2 AN v. 1-6)
Andersen, H. C., Lucas, E., Paull, H. B., & Szyk, A. (1945). Andersen's Fairy tales. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. (J 398.209489 AN)
Bottigheimer, R. B. (1986). Fairy tales and society: Illusion, allusion, and paradigm. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (398.209 FA)
Doherty, B., & Ray, J. (2000). Fairy tales. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. (J 398.2 DO)
Flack, J. D. (1997). From the land of enchantment Creative teaching with fairy tales. Gifted treasury series. Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press. (eBook)
Grimm, J., Grimm, W., & Tatar, M. (2004). The annotated Brothers Grimm. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. (398.20943 KI)
Johnson, J. P., & Reasoner, C. (1998). Lucky Jack and the giant: An African-American legend. Legends of the world. Mahwah, NJ: Troll. (J 398.208996 JO)
Martin, J. M. (2002). 12 fabulously funny fairy tale plays. New York, NY: Scholastic Professional Books. (372.6044 MA)
Pirotta, S., Johnson, R., & Aesop. (2005). Aesop's fables. Boston, MA: Kingfisher. (J 398.2 PI)
Yolen, J., & Nolan, D. (2004). The perfect wizard: Hans Christian Andersen. New York, NY: Dutton's Children's Books. (J B ANDERSEN)
Rothman, B., Wohl, J., Campbell, N., Jones, D., Sand, P., Grimm, J., et al. (1992). Once upon a Brothers Grimm. VCI family classic. Tulsa, OK: VCI Home Video. (VIDEO J O)
Andersen, H. C., & Johns, E. (1994). Andersen's fairy tales. Children's classics. [S.l.]: Naxos AudioBooks. (AUDIO J 398.21 GR)
Andersen, H. C., Wilde, O., Chamberlain, R., Plummer, C., & Johns, G. (2001). Classic fairy tales. [S.l.]: Reader's Association. (VIDEO J C)
Magnusson, M. (1981). Tales from Viking times. Downsview, Ontario: Listen for Pleasure. (AUDIO 398.2 MA)
Alexander, Linda B. and Maria Sanez. (2003). Using Children's Folktales to Explore Multiculturalism. School Library Journal Media Activities Monthly. 23(3), 22-24.
Doyle, K. O., & Doyle, M. R. (2001). Meanings of Wealth in European and Chinese Fairy Tales. American Behavioral Scientist. 45(2), 191-204.
Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook. (2004). The Journal of American Culture. 27(4), 445-446.
Grenby, M. O. (2006). Tame Fairies Make Good Teachers: The Popularity of Early British Fairy Tales. Lion and the Unicorn. 30(1), 1-24.
Krapp, J. V. (2005). Folklore. School Library Journal Media Activities
Monthly. 21(9), 38-42.
Lantz, Kate. (1995). Using Picture Books to Teach Fairy Tales. Art Education. 58(6), 25-32.
Prentiss, S. (2004). Fairy tales and storytelling: impromptu speaking with a twist. Communication Teacher. 18(1), 31-32.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=387
From the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site has lesson plans for teaching Fairy Tales and Fables.
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/tel/fairytales.pdf
The Tennessee Electronic Library offers a page about Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Fables that includes link to other pages.
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/fairy/lesson.htm
South Dakota’s Office of Curriculum ,Technology and Assessment offer a thematic unit on Fairy Tales that includes links for curriculum resources.
http://www.yesicankids.gov/bedtime/index.html
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans offers a link to classic fairy tales as bedtime stories that can be read aloud.
From the Florida Sunshine State Standards (http://www.floridastandards.org)
· LA.K.2.1.1 The student will identify familiar literary forms (e.g., fairy tales, tall tales, nursery rhymes, fables).
· LA.K.2.1.5 The student will participate in a group response to various literary selections (e.g., nursery rhymes, fairy tales, picture books), identifying the character(s), setting, and sequence of events and connecting text to self (personal connection) and text to world (social connection).
· LA.1.2.1.5 The student will respond to various literary selections (e.g., nursery rhymes, fairy tales), identifying the character(s), setting, and sequence of events and connecting text to self (personal connection), text to world (social connection), text to text (comparison among multiple texts).
· LA.2.2.1.8 The student will select a balance of age and ability appropriate fiction materials to read (e.g., chapter books, fairy tales, mythology, poetry), based on interest and teacher recommendations, to continue building a core foundation of knowledge.
· LA.3.2.1.8 The student will select a balance of age and ability appropriate fiction materials to read (e.g., chapter books, fairy tales, mythology, poetry), based on interest and teacher recommendations, to continue building a core foundation of knowledge.
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