British Fairy Tales Teacher Resources

"Once upon a time . . ." Language learners examine the key elements of well-known fairy tales and then craft their own.

Students research a variety of fairy tales on the internet. They experience their magical settings and imaginative context. Students look at the vocabulary of each tale in depth. They access a mystical atmosphere to enhance their...

Investigate the life of Mahatma Gandhi by researching non-violent lifestyles. Learners define the word ahimsa and discuss the personal characteristics that made Gandhi a peaceful warrior. They also create a poster about the story "The...

Use short stories to teach English? Yes! Designed as a professional development opportunity for English language teachers, the ideas in this booklet can easily be adapted to advanced ESL/ELL classes.

Here is a lesson designed to be an ongoing task for the entire year. Each day of the week, learners must perform research to answer a simple historical question. This particular lesson covers the month of April, but the template...

In this Princess Diana worksheet, students read about the life of the princess, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.

For this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Prince William and Kate Middleton and then complete a variety of in class and homework activities including spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.

Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.

Professor John Bowen explains how Charlotte Bronte combines fairytale, Gothic techniques, and realism to give Jane Eyre its unique power. [5:05]

This is a 27-page PDF of GAWAYNE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis; a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Night.

Watch this age-old tale in cartoon animation and read along slide by slide. [3:24]

"The Bloody Chamber" is a collection of modern fairy tales, many of which incorporate elements of Gothic literature. Greg Buzwell traces the Gothic influence on Carter's stories, from the Marquis de Sade to Edgar Allan Poe.

Listen to and read along with this animated version of the classic tale of Goldilocks and her encounter with with Three Bears. Click on the "start story" button for the story to begin.

Professor John Bowen considers Emily Bronte's combination of fantasy and reality in Wuthering Heights and the way in which fairy tale and Gothic elements 'haunt the edges' of the novel.

These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...

This is the complete text of the fairy tale novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.

This site is a story maker; students choose from three types of stories: fairy tale, horror story, or science fiction. They follow the directions choosing from pictures and typing in words. Then the complete story is finished and they...

These articles research how childhood was depicted in the literature of the 18th and 19th century, and how perceptions of childhood were different from those of today.

Listen to and read along with this animated version of Little Red Riding Hood and her encounter with a wolf on the way to her grandmother's house.

This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...

A biography of David Hockney, Pop artist. Examples of his work with some explanation. There is a link to a short discussion on the Pop movement.