Knowledge 1

Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

 Lesson 1:
“The Fisherman and His Wife”
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Primary Focus of the Lesson – What will we do today?

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I. Reading: - Core Connections

• Review – What we know about fairytales. (RL.2.2)

Domain Introduction-
• Predict- About a character in "The Fisherman and His
Wife” (RL. 2.3)
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Primary Focus of the Lesson – What will we do today?

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II. Language:
• Demonstrate/show –An understanding of the Tier 2 word
displeases- (L.2.5, L.2.5a)

III. Writing (Application):

• Change – One element of “The Fisherman and His Wife” and
describe or show original text/story. (W.2.8)
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Primary Focus of the Lesson – What will we do today?

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IV. Formative Assessment: (Rewriting the Read Aloud)

• Change – One element of “The Fisherman and His Wife and
describe how it changes the text/story. (W.2.3)

V. Homework(Take-Home Material)
• Family Letter - Activity Page 1.2
 Introducing the Read Aloud Look, Listen
and Learn
(10 Minutes)
Our Lesson At A Glance Grouping Time
Introducing Read Aloud
Materials

Core Connections Whole 10 Min q Power Point

(Pulling it together) Group Presentation

q Short fairy tales

familiar to students
Domain Introductions
(Intro to Reading)
q World Map or Globe

q Flip Book

q Activity Book

Check For Understanding

 Read Aloud - 30 Minutes
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Our Lesson At A Glance

Grouping Time Materials
Read Aloud
Purpose for Listening Whole Group 30 Minutes q Power Point Presentation

q Text
The Fisherman and His
Wife

Comprehension Questions

Word Work
Brain Break – Go Noodle, Fun Word Games, Stretch Break
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Brain Break
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Application - 20 Minutes and Learn

Our Lesson At A Glance

Grouping Time Materials

Application

Rewriting the Read Aloud Whole 20 q Activity Page 1.1

Group Minutes
Independent

Check for Understanding Partner

Take Home Material

Family Letter q Activity Page 1.1

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Lesson 1: The Fisherman and His Wife and Learn
Introducing the Read Aloud (10 Minutes)
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I. Reading -Core Connections (what have we already learned) (5 min)

• Use - your BRAIN to make connections with our story “The Fisherman
and His Wife” and the familiar fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty”.

• Follow - the Look, Listen and Learn motto.

• Using this motto means, during our lesson we will look at our text,
learning about our characters through pictures and story development,
listening as we read aloud discussing in whole group, independently and as
partners to learn from each other, learning about fairy tales, working on
our language through new words and finally writing, by changing one
element of our text.

• Let’s first read and listen to “Sleeping Beauty”.

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Introducing the Read Aloud (10 Minutes)
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STOP- Thinking Moment
Speaking and Listening
• (Remember to answer questions in complete sentences using key details)
• When answering a complete sentence you must restate the question:
• For example: If I ask the class: What color is the sky?
• Complete Sentence: The color (detail) of the sky(detail) is blue (detail).
• Any questions?
Characters
• Describe the characters in the story?
• Who are the main characters?
Setting
• Where does the story take place? (
Details of Story
• Is this a true story? How do you know? Tell me some things that give this away. (details)
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Introducing the Read Aloud (10 Minutes)
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I. Reading -Domain Introductions (5 minutes)

STOP: Thinking Moment

• Do you enjoy fairy tales?

• Can you name other fairy tales?

• How are these fairy tales similar to each other and to Sleepy Beauty?

• Who are the characters of these fairy tales?

• Can you name any fairy tales that begin with “Once Upon A Time?”
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Introducing the Read Aloud

Things to Remember

• Fairy Tales often feature members of a royal family.

• Such as princes, princesses, kings and queens; characters with special powers or
magical transformations.
• Many things that happen in fairy tales are fantasy and cannot happen in real life; in other
words fairy tales are fiction.
• They also often have a happy ending, and end with the phrase “they lived happily ever
after” or some similar phrase.

TODAY, you will hear a fairy tale called “The Fisherman and His Wife”;
• Originally retold in Germany;
• By two brothers known as the Brothers Grimm;
• Let’s look at Germany on the map;
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“Picture of a fish” and Learn

This is a picture of a real fish. The story you will hear today is about
a fish. The fish in our story will act differently from any fish you will
ever see or hear about.
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Introducing the Read Aloud (10 Minutes)

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Check for Understanding
• Stand Up/Sit Up – I’m going to read several statements. If the statement describes a
characteristic of a fairy tale, stand up. If it does not describe a characteristic of a fairy tale, sit
down (sit down)

• Is a true story that could happen in real life

(sit down)
• Often starts with “once upon a time
(stand)
• Often has a magical character
(stand)
• Never includes a prince, princess, king, or queen
(sit down)
Great Job! Now let’s begin reading our story, “The Fisherman and His Wife”.
“The fisherman with a fish on Look, Listen
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the line”

STOP: Thinking Moment :

Do you see the hut on the hill?
That’s where the fisherman and his wife lived.
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“The fisherman with a fish on the line” and Learn

Vocabulary Moment
Might or strength, n- the power to do something; force or strength. Example:
The boy tried to open the door with all his might, but it would not open.

Enchanted, adj – as if under a magic spell; Ruby and Hiroto knew they were
in an enchanted forest because there were jewels growing on the trees.

STOP: Thinking Moment

The fish states : “The fish says” he is actually a prince under a magic spell.

Do you think the fish is really an enchanted prince?

 “The fisherman arriving home”
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STOP: Thinking Moment:

The fisherman’s wife asks: ”Go back and ask him to change this dinky hut into a
charming cottage.”

Charming means very pleasing: Why does the wife wish for a charming cottage?

Vocabulary Moment
Charming- very pleasing or appealing; Example: The family stayed in a charming little
cottage at the beach.
 “The fisherman and the cottage”

STOP: Thinking Moment

The fish states: “Go home,” said the fish. “She has her cottage.”

Do you think the wife will really have a charming cottage? Do you think the
fish minds granting the wish?

Look at the hut, in what ways is the cottage better?

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“The fisherman’s wife”

STOP: Thinking Moment:

Why does the fisherman think his wife’s new wish is not right? ”
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“The fisherman and the doc” and Learn

STOP: Thinking Moment:

While I point to the sea let’s read a portion together.

“Hear me, please, oh magic fish. My wife has sent me with a wish.”

After hearing the fisherman’s request further the fish states,

“Go home.” You will find her in a castle.”

How do you think the fish feels about granting this wish?
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“The fisherman’s stone castle” and Learn

STOP: Thinking Moment:

Do you think the fisherman’s wife will be content, or happy?

What happens the next morning: Was the fisherman’s wife happy?

Does the fisherman want to ask the fish for another wish?
 “The fisherman and the fish” Look, Listen
and Learn

STOP: Thinking Moment:

Dejected means sad. Why do you think the fisherman is sad.

Look at the sea. If the sea is foul smelling, did it smell good?

Vocabulary Moment

The text states, that the fisherman hesitated, or waited, and then called;

Let’s read the next portion together (on next slide)

“The fisherman and the fish” (cont.)
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“Hear me, please, oh magic fish. My wife has sent me with a wish.”

STOP: Thinking Moment

The castle has grown, and the wife is now queen.

Do you think the wife will be satisfied now that she is a queen?
“The fisherman’s wife on the throne” Look, Listen
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STOP Thinking Moment: -Vocabulary Moment:

The fisherman’s wife states, “Indeed,” said his wife haughtily. Haughtily means
rudely and proudly.

The fisherman states “Well then, said the fisherman. “I suppose there is nothing
more to wish for;
Do you think the wife will agree that there is nothing more to wish for?

Later the fisherman’s wife sent for him: What do you think the wife will ask for:
Would you grant her another wish if you were the fish?
 “The queen makes another wish” Look, Listen
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STOP Thinking Moment:

The queen states, “Husband!” she bellowed, “it displeases me that the sun and
moon will not rise and set at my command.

Vocabulary Moment

If something pleases you, it makes you happy. So, what does displeases mean?

Displeases – causes someone to feel unhappy or annoyed; Example: It displeases the

baseball players when their game is cancelled due to rain. Variations: displease,
displeased, displeasing

If you were the fish would you want to make another visit to the sea?
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STOP: Thinking Moment

If you were the fish would you want to make another visit to the sea?
In the text the fisherman replied, “My wife wants the power to make the sun and the
moon rise and set whenever she chooses, “Do you think the fish will grant this wish?
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“The wife back in the hut”

STOP: Thinking Moment

The fish only said, “Go home.” And so he did. Do you think the fish has granted the woman’s
wish?
 “Comprehension Questions” Look, Listen

(10 Minutes)
and Learn

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STOP: Thinking Moment
1. Were your predictions about the character’s magic powers correct?
2. The fisherman caught a fish, but then let him go. Who did the fish say he was?
A. An enchanted prince
B. A prince under a magical spell

3. What things does the wife tell the fisherman to ask the fish for?
A. A charming cottage
B. A stone castle
C. To be queen
D. To make the sun rise and set on command

3b. Where did the fisherman and his wife live at the beginning of the story?
In a hut by the sea
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STOP: Thinking Moment (cont.)
4. How did the husband feel about asking the fish for things over and over again?
A. embarrassed
B. uncomfortable
C. bad

5. How did the sea change each time the fisherman asked the fish for another wish?
It became darker and more stirred up.

6. How do you think the fish’s feelings changed each time he granted a wish?
• He became angrier
• More impatient each time
• It seems as if the sea became more violent as the fish became angrier

7. What happened when the wife asked to command the sun to rise and set?
The fish took away everything he had given her and left her with the rundown hut.
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Think /Pair/Share Look, Listen
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Think/Pair/Share
Directions: I will ask you a question; Listen carefully to the question

Think- about the question; You will have a minute to think;

Pair- Turn and Talk with your partner and discuss the question;
Share- what you discussed with your partner;

STOP: Thinking Moment

Do you think there is a lesson to be learned from this story?
If so, what is it? If not, why? Now: Think, Pair, Share!!!
 “Check for Understanding”
Turn and Talk (5 Minutes)
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Turn and Talk

• How do you know that this story is a fairy tale?
• Name one characteristic of a fairy tale in “The Fisherman and His Wife,” and
then have your partner name another;
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Turn and Talk

(5 Minutes)
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Turn and Talk:

• How do you know that this story is a fairy tale?
• Name one characteristic of a fairy tale in “The Fisherman and His Wife,” and
then have your partner name another;

STOP: Thinking Moment

• After hearing today’s read-aloud and questions and answers, do you

have any remaining questions?
 “Word Work: Displeases” Look, Listen
(5 Minutes) and Learn

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Word Work
• In the read-aloud you heard the fisherman’s wife say, “It displeases me that the sun and
moon will not rise and set at my command.”
• Say the word displeases with me.
• Displeases means to be unhappy or bothered about something.
• It displeases the baseball players when their game is cancelled because of rain.
• Tell me about something that displeases you. Try to use the word displeases when you tell
about it. [Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase students’
responses: “It displeases me when . . .”]
• What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
 “Antonyms Follow-up Activity” Look, Listen

(5 Minutes) and Learn

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Follow-up Activity
• The prefix dis– often makes a word have the opposite meaning.
• Displeases is the antonym, or opposite, of the word pleases.
• I am going to read several examples. If the event or activity I describe makes you
unhappy, say, “That displeases me.”
• If the event or activity I describe makes you happy, say, “That pleases me.”
q You wake up and see that it snowed overnight.
q Your best friend invites you to play.
q It starts raining on a Saturday afternoon.
q You miss the bus to school.
q Your family is having meatloaf for dinner
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Activity Page 1.1
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Writing: During this portion you will change one element of “The Fisherman and
His Wife” and describe how it changes the original text. [W.2.8]

• This is a graphic organizer to help you summarize a story;

• We will fill in the information together as a class first;

• Then you will create your own version of the story changing one
element of the story; For example you can change the fisherman’s job,
where the story takes place, or one of the wife’s wishes;

• In the new version the wife will make only three (3) wishes;

• Let’s identify the characters, setting and plot (the wishes of “The
Fisherman and His Wife” together as a class.
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Activity Page 1.1

• I will now handout Activity
1.1 graphic organizer

• You will make a change to

one of the elements of the
story;
• Only one;

• The rest of the story

elements will remain the
same;
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Time for Homework” and Learn

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Today’s Take Home Material American History

Reading

• Activity Page 1.2 Science

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