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Fractured Fairy Tales are stories that use fairy tales and change the characters, settings, points of view, or plot.
http://www.christelow.com/classroom/wolf.html - Lesson plan for a fractured fairy tale version of The Three Little Pigs.
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/03-1/lesson003.shtml - Students study and diagram elements of fairy tales, read a fractured fairy tale, and then write their own fractured tales.
http://successforall.com/_images/pdfs/WW5_N.pdf - Students will write fractured versions of favourite fairy tales, then they will add silly details and events to passages to create humour.
   

Search the Lakehead Public Schools Library Database Aurora using the term fractured fairy to find fractured fairy tales held in our libraries.
 

A picture book that begins with the fictional editor's note about an encounter with an author/illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions of fourteen pictures.  He left with a promise to deliver the complete stories that accompanied the pictures if the editor chose to buy the books. Burdick was never seen again, and the fourteen pictures are all that remain of his supposed books. Readers are challenged to imagine their own stories based on the images in the book.
www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/hmco/MysteriesHarrisBurdick_TG.pdf - This printable teacher's guide includes a book summary, lesson plans for lower and upper grades, and questions to direct discussion as your class reads the book aloud.
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/tg/mysteriesofharris.shtml - A teacher's guide.
www.frontiernet.net/~mblow/harris_burdick.htm - Includes a creative writing project description and pictures from the book.
 
Visit the Freedom to Read site

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,  Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker, On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Lois Lowry's The Giver are some titles that have been challenged over the past 21 years. The complete list provides information on more than 100 challenged books where each challenge sought to limit public access to the books in schools, libraries, or bookstores.  Some challenges were upheld; others were rejected.
 
Lesson Plan - A Case for Reading—Examining Challenged and Banned Books
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=410
 

August 2008