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Fairytales (including fractured fairytales)

We have selected these online resources to support you when you need information relating to the popular curriculum based topic,  Fairytales - including fractured fairytales. SCIS 1525130

High interest topic: Fairytales

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Fables and Fairytales

A website dedicated to fables, and fairy tales. Includes  Aesop’s Fables, stories by Hans Christian Anderson and Lewis Carroll with Mother Goose nursery rhymes. 

Suggested level: primary
ivyjoy.com/fables/index.shtml

Fractured Fairytales

This site allows you to read fractured tales as well as attempting to re-write some yourself. 

Suggested level: primary
www.readwritethink.org/materials/fairytales/

Grimm Brothers’ Fairytales

Full text versions of fairytales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Comprehensive selection—discretion advisable with some of the darker stories.

Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary
www.grimmstories.com/

SurLaLune

Features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and numerous illustrations.

Suggested level: intermediate, secondary
www.surlalunefairytales.com/

EPIC

Fairy Tales

Britannica Online School Edition
Provides a range on articles about fairy tales and fables.  This link takes you to EPIC Databases for Schools via TKI. You will need your EPIC login.

Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary
www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/