Project Includes

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Workbook
  • Customizable Resources
  • Assessment Tools
  • Extension Activities
  • Sample Files
  • Templates
  • Parent Letters
  • Certificates

TechnoAuthor

Item Number: PRI-AUTHOR
Technology Integration: Language Arts
Technology Skill: Desktop Publishing, Word Processing
Program: Word
Includes: Fairy Tales Lesson Plans, Teacher Guide, Printable Student Workbook, Paperless Worksheets, Review Questions, Extension Activities, TechnoAuthor Parent Letter, TechnoAuthor Certificate, Summary of Skills Checklist, TechnoAuthor Marking Sheet, Sample Books, Frog Prince Template, Three Little Pigs Template, Wags Finds a Home Template, Cat Makes a Friend Template, Story Starter Template, My Story Template (all templates have a custom quick access toolbar)

Session 1: The Frog Prince
Customize the appearance of text in the story The Frog Prince.
Session 2: Wags Finds a Home
Use clip art to illustrate the events in the story Wags Finds a Home.
Session 3: The Sad Princess
Write your own ending to a story about a sad princess.
Session 4: Once Upon a Time
Organize ideas to write an original fairy tale with a beginning, middle, and end.
Session 5: Happily Ever After
Demonstrate knowledge to illustrate a fairy tale.
Session 6: Publish the Fairy Tale
Proofread for spelling and grammar errors. Publish the storybook.

Optional Fairy Tales Lesson Plans

  • The Keyboard: Color code the keys.
  • About the Fairy Tale:  Analyze another tale.
  • Happily Ever After: Solve story problems.
  • undefined Discover the hardware.
  • The Three Little Pigs: Practice your new skills.
  • Cat Makes a Friend: Illustrate a different story.
  • Fairy Tale Puppets: Make crafts.

Integrate Language Arts with Technology

Engage in the story writing process. Write, edit, and illustrate stories with Microsoft Word templates. Create fairy tale books to print and share! Use TechnoAuthor fairy tales lesson plans to teach essential word processing skills.

  • Recognize the characteristics of a fairy tale
  • Understand a story has a beginning, middle, and end
  • Change text to enhance the message
  • Insert and format clip art to illustrate a story
  • Add a page border
  • Type text in simple sentences using the keyboard
  • Plan and organize story events in a storyboard
  • Write about a character that solves a problem
  • Edit a document to prepare it for printing
  • Read a story

I love the curriculum. It matches what we want for our kids perfectly!

S. Dowlatshahi,
Greengates School,
Mexico

Customer Reviews

Primary students have fun writing fairy tales. Following detailed lesson plans, they write, illustrate, and edit stories on simple to use, colorful templates designed with a custom toolbar for Microsoft Word.

I love the curriculum. It matches what we want for our kids perfectly!

S. Dowlatshahi,
Greengates School,
Mexico