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Teaching Fairy Tales Through
Comparative Literature
Betül ALTAŞ
Fairy Tales
• Fairy tales are full of binary oppositions such as
good/bad and black/white.
• Fairy tales :
 involve fantastic forces and beings
 offer insights into an introduction to
arts for the child.
• Comparative literature through teaching fairy
tales bridges the gap between:
school and social/cultural
psychological lives of learners.
• It is the study of texts across cultures.
Why Comparative Literature?
• Analysis of literary texts from a comparative
perspective.
• Focus is on the significance of culture in the
textual analysis.
Why Culture?
 Analyzing target culture provides:
a) a perspective with the metaphorical cultural
space in the literary text.
Why Comparative Literature?
 Comparing and contrasting characters and
plots help learners improve analytical skills.
 Study of different texts (side by side) enables
young learners how to interpret :
a) common points
b) differences
Use of Different Models in Teaching
Fairy Tales
• The cultural heritage model
• The social sciences model
• The reflective inquiry model
Purpose of Using Fairy Tales
• Providing aesthetic experiences for children
• Stimuli for both intellectual and emotional
responses
• Enhancing the language development when
they are provided with plays, songs, and
games
• Building the gap between social life and
literary work
• Developing moral values while analyzing,
comparing, and constrasting texts
Pre-reading Activities
• Display students the pictures from the books
• Ask them to guess what will happen.
• Tell the stories to the students by:
reading them from the books or
displaying pictures.
• The aim of this activity is to help learners to guess
the context from the pictures .
While reading
• Write down the most significant words
• Ask students to guess the meaning of the words
• Divide the learners into groups, and organize
the activity like a game or contest
• You can also display the pictures and ask
students to match the words with the right
pictures
• You can choose the words that describe the
characters.
• Ask students to match the words with the
characters.
Instructional Techniques for
Comparative Teaching of Fairy Tales
• Comparing the characters such as bad or good
characters in both tales
• Comparing the plots
• Analyzing universal themes such as justice and
injustice; luck and bad luck and so on.
• Ask the students to recreate the end of the
both tales.
• While organizing the ending, ask them to
change the behavior of the bad characters and
turn them into good ones.