Series

Faerie Tale Theatre

21 episodes

Shelley Duvall's Emmy-nominated 1980s anthology, performed live-action with a marquee cast and staged more like filmed theatre than television. Twenty-one tales are in the catalog, most running 40 to 56 minutes: Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Rip Van Winkle. Because actors and sets carry the story rather than animation, each one earns its place twice, once inside a folk-and-fairy-tale unit and once for comparing the version students already know against a staged retelling of the same tale.

what this series covers

What Faerie Tale Theatre covers

21 episodes in the library, tagged for 1st–5th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA) and Theatre. Between them they line up with 7 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

1st: 8
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 13
5th: 2

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 21
Theatre: 21

Common Core — ELA 4

RL.2.9Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
RL.3.2Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details.
RL.2.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
RL.2.1Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

National Core Arts 3

TH:Re7.1.3aUnderstand why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work.
TH:Re8.1.2aExplain how personal preferences and emotions affect an observer’s response in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama), or age-appropriate theatre performance.
TH:Re9.1.3cEvaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.

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