Come in and open your readers notebook to your folklore tree map. Make sure your map looks like this: Folklore Folk TaleFairy Tale

Turn the page and make a double bubble map: Folk Tales Fairy Tales

Vocab: Turn to the back of your readers notebook Fairy Tale- a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins) —called also fairy story. It is also a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending.

You should have this in your notebook: Folk Tales HeroSymbolLesson Ordinary person Something that represents good or evil What was the lesson you learned from hearing/reading the folk tale?

Fairy Tale Elements Often start and end with special words like "once upon a time," "a long, long time ago," and "they lived happily ever after." When you read those words, you know that the story could be a fairy tale. The story often takes place in a castle, a forest, or a town. This is called the setting. The setting is where the story takes place. Little Red Riding Hood is set in the forest, and part of Cinderella is set in the castle of the prince

Fairy Tale Elements Very often, one of the characters is royalty, which means that the person is a king, a queen, a prince, or princess. A good example of this is The Princess and the Pea. Characters may also be animals, like the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, or the bears in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Fairy tales always have at least one good character, or person, in the story. An example of a good character is Cinderella. Fairy tales often have bad characters, too, like Cinderella's mean stepsisters. Another example of a bad character is the evil witch in Hansel and Gretel.

Fairy Tale Elements Magic is often an element of fairy tales. In Cinderella, there is a fairy godmother who helps Cinderella go to the ball in a fancy dress and carriage. In Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack buys magic seeds that grow into a beanstalk. One of the most important elements in a fairy tale is that they always have a problem that must be solved. For example, in the Princess and the Pea, the prince wants to find a real princess to marry. His mother, the queen, helps him find a real princess by putting a pea in the bed to find out if the princess can feel it.