Fairytale writing

We have listened to lots of different fairytales this term including twisted versions of our old favourites (some with a New Zealand twist eg: Trev and the Kauri Tree, Cindy and the Lost Jandal, The Three Sheep and The Ugly Hatchling). We have started writing our own twisted fairytales which we want to put altogether in one big book for others to read. First we walked through the much loved story of the Three Little Pigs. We wrote down on the footprints what the setting was (where it took place), the characters (the people in the story), the problem and solution (way the problem was fix), what happened in the beginning, next, then and finally at the end. This helped us to step out exactly what made this fairytale special.

We each got small versions of these posters to put in our books and we choose our own fairytale to twist. We glued the posters in the middle of our page and on one side wrote what happened in the original version and then on the other side what our version was going to include. This became our plan which helped a lot when we came to writing our own fairytales. We also knew that a fairytale must start with 'Once upon a time...' or something similiar and most fairytales end with 'And they lived happily ever after.'