Learn six famous fairy tales and traditional tales, retell them in order, spot what they share and join in with their repeated phrases in a storybook land.
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Fairy Tales and Traditional Tales is an interactive game that teaches children aged 5–7 six well-known stories, how to retell them in the right order, what fairy tales have in common and how to join in with their repeated phrases.
Guided by Bo the bookworm, children tap their way round a storybook map. They open storybooks, rebuild a story map that the wind has blown into a muddle, and help goats, pigs and a hen through their tales by choosing the words that come next. A friendly voice reads every line aloud, so early readers can play on their own.
Along the way they meet the key ideas of the Year 1 curriculum: a traditional tale is an old story first told out loud, and a repeated phrase, or refrain, is a group of words that comes back again and again. Fairy tales share features such as a special opening, good and bad characters and patterns of three.
Traditional tales are old stories that people told out loud for hundreds of years before they were written down, such as The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They often have talking animals, magic and clearly good and bad characters.
Most fairy tales begin with a special opening like 'Once upon a time' and end with 'happily ever after'. They usually have good and bad characters, settings such as castles, forests and cottages, things that happen in threes, and some magic.
A repeated phrase is a group of words that comes again and again in a story, like the troll's 'Who's that tripping over my bridge?' in The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Knowing it is coming helps children remember the story and join in.
This game is for children aged 5 to 7 and matches the Year 1 English curriculum in England (Key Stage 1). Every line is read aloud, so children who are still learning to read can play it on their own.
The whole game takes about 35 minutes to play. It has five short chapters and a final 10-question Fairy Tale Show quiz, and children can start any chapter from the map and come back to it later.
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