Write your own Fairy Tale Lesson (using 'Little Red Riding Hood' as a starting point!)

Lesson Objectives:
* Listen to a different version of Little Red Riding Hood
* Talk about what happened in the stories and what's different
* Think about new ideas for the setting, characters, the ending, story language
* Write our own fairy tale

I used this lesson for a Year 5/6 mixed class of SEND pupils.

This resource is a presentation containing the story 'Little Red Fish' - I wrote this as an alternative version of the Little Red Riding Hood story. The story is presented on the slides in the PowerPoint (so pupils can practise reading aloud to the class), and I have also attached a worksheet version of the story, for pupils to follow with their fingers if preferred.

The presentation ends by encouraging the children to think about what was different in this story to the classic fairy tale.

I then asked pupils to think of what they could use in their stories instead of:
* A forest setting
* Little Red Riding Hood (the 'goody' character)
* The basket (the main prop)
* The Wolf (the 'baddy' character)
* Grandma (the damsel in distress)
* The Axe-man (the 'hero')

We discussed that the above list is just a start on how we could write a fairy tale, but is a very structured way of helping the children to create their own tales.