This document provides information about different types of stories - folk tales, fairy tales, and fables. It defines their key characteristics, such as folk tales being passed down through generations, fairy tales involving magic, and fables usually including animals and teaching a moral lesson. Examples of each type of story are also presented, along with their point of view, setting, and theme or message. Writing tools used in stories like prediction, personification, and setting are also discussed.

1. FOLK TALES,
FAIRY TALES,
AND FABLES
Ms. Lichtenstein
3rd Grade English/Language Arts

2. FOLK TALE
Made up story
Passed down from older
generations
Legends, wise tales
Stories are superstitious

3. FAIRY TALE
A simple children‟s story
Uses your imagination
Usually involves magic
Princesses, fairies, goblins,
wizards, etc.

4. FABLE
A short, fictional story
Usually teach a lesson
Moral
Uses animals, creatures
Often see talking animals

5. THEME
Subject for a story
Qualities and characteristics
Examples of common themes
• Journeys/ adventure
• Love/ friendship
• Mysteries

6. MAIN IDEA
“Big picture” of a story
Message in a story
Look for a topic sentence
Idea

7. MORAL
Lesson about right and
wrong
Morals aren‟t always good
• Bad things can teach good
lessons

8. WRITING TOOLS
Prediction: what you think will
happen
Personification: giving human
characteristics to things
Point of View: who tells the story
Setting: where the story takes place

9. THE LITTLE RED
HEN
“Then, probably because she had acquired
the habit, the Red Hen called: „Who will eat
the Bread?‟ All the animals in the barnyard
were watching hungrily and smacking their
lips in anticipation, and the pig said, „I will,‟
and the Cat said, „I will,‟ and the Rat said, „I
will.‟ But the Little Red Hen said, „No, you
won‟t. I will.‟ And she did.”

10. THE LITTLE RED HEN
CONT.
Type of story (folk tale, fairy tale, fable?)
• Folk Tale
Point of View (who‟s telling the story?)
• Red Hen
Setting: (Where does the story take place?)
• Farm

11. THE PRINCESS AND
THE PEA
“Well, we‟ll soon find that out,” thought the
old queen. But she said nothing, went into
the bed-room, took all the bedding off the
bedspread, and laid a pea on the bottom;
then she took twenty mattresses and lad
them on the pea, and then twenty eider-
down beds on top of mattresses.”

12. THE PRINCESS AND
THE PEA CONT.
Type of story (folk tale, fairy tale, fable?)
• Fairy Tale
Point of view (who tells the story?)
• A narrator (unknown character)
Setting (where does the story take place?)
• Prince‟s Castle

13. THE TORTOISE AND THE
HARE
“The tortoise never for a moment stopped, but
went on with a slow but steady pace straight
to the end of the course. The hare, trusting to
his native swiftness, cared little about the
race, and lying down by the wayside, fell
asleep. At last, waking up, and moving as fast
as he could, he saw the tortoise had reached
the goal and was comfortably dozing after
fatigue.”

14. THE TORTOISE AND THE
HARE CONT.
Type of Story (folk tale, fairy tale, fable?)
• Fable
Point of View (who tells the story?)
• Narrator
Setting (where does the story take place?)
• Outside at a race/ competition

15. REVIEW
There are several different types of stories
• Specific things are unique to specific stories
Morals are the lessons/meanings in stories
• They can be good or bad
Authors use writing tools
• Prediction
• Personification
• Point of View
• Setting

16. WORKS CITED
 Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales of Hans
Christian Andersen. 2008. Print.
 "BrainPOP Jr. | Main Idea | Lesson Ideas." BrainPOP
Jr. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.
http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/comprehe
nsion/mainidea/grownups.weml.
 "Definition of - Merriam-Webster's Student
Dictionary." Merriam-Webster's Word Central. Web. 27
Feb. 2012. http://wordcentral.com/cgi-
bin/student?book=Student.

17. WORKS CITED
CONT.
Various. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy
Stories. Vol. 1. New York: University
Society, 1927. Print. The Young Folks Treasury.
Williams, Florance White. The Little Red Hen
An Old English Folk Tale. Chicago - Akron, Ohio -
New York: Saalfield, 1918. Print.

18. IMAGES
 “Light Bulb” Microsoft Clip Art
 “Pea” Microsoft Clip Art
 “Rabbit” Microsoft Clip Art
 “Turtle” Microsoft Clip Art.
 http://www.alloccasion-clipart.com/free/pea_princess.gif