Rumpelstiltskin Storybook Text: Fairy Tales Old and New

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

4

Overview

As you watch this updated snippet of the story of Rumpelstiltskin, take note of the characters, setting, and what happens in the story.

After the video, check out the additional activities below for the classroom and for the home, and watch the “Guided Viewing” version for parents to get additional tips for helping your students understand the English Language Arts concepts in the video.

Designed to help students learn to describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).

You can access a pdf of the story by clicking on the following link: Rumpelstiltskin Storybook Text

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.6

Read grade-level text orally with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and integration to support comprehension.

UP:ELA21.4.6

Vocabulary

  • Pauses
  • Intonation
  • Integration
  • Stress
  • Phrasing
  • Rate
  • Comprehension

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Fluent readers include pauses at appropriate times, link spoken words together in phrases, stress the correct syllables and words in sentences, and use changes in voice tone to convey meaning.
  • Oral reading must occur at a rate (speed) to integrate meaning and support comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate oral reading with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation.
  • Orally read at a rate that supports comprehension.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • To comprehend text that they read aloud, they must read at an appropriate speed, and include pauses, phrasing, stress, and intonation as indicated by the text.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.15

Analyze in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

UP:ELA21.4.15

Vocabulary

  • Analyze
  • Character
  • Setting
  • Event
  • Story
  • Drama
  • Specific details

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Characters are any person, animal, or figure that affect the events of the story.
  • Setting is when and where a story takes place.
  • Events are situations that are described in the story.
  • A drama is a story with dialogue that can be read by different people.
  • Details in the text provide information about the characters, setting, and events.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use specific details from the text to explain attributes of the characters, setting, or event in a story or drama.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can explain details about characters, settings, and events in a story or drama by using evidence from the text.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

CUSTOM
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