Have younger students retell a famous folk or fairy tale in their own words. Have the students do illustrations, stand up characters or dioramas for their tale. Turn the tales into a book or big book. Some students may wish to tape their tale. Their tape and an illustration can be put in the listening center.
Students can make a list of the folk and fairy tales they have read.
Some students can make a chart or Venn diagram of the characteristics of folk and fairy tales. The 6 Chinese stories selected for this lesson are billed as folk tales but some contain magic and fairies. This discovery by the students should lead to an interesting discussion and perhaps a working definition by the class of what constitutes folk and fairy tales. The teacher or competent reader can read selected stories and have others guess if they are folk or fairy tales. Read folk and fairy tales from different cultures and compare them .