Designed to give children a sense of the cultural heritage that fairy tales represent, this instructional unit was originally developed to motivate eighth-grade low-level readers and was later adapted for English as a second language classes and for a variety of elementary and secondary school learning levels. Objectives of the unit are to help students (1) develop listening skills by hearing fairy tales and doing various assignments, (2) enjoy reading their choice of fairy tales, (3) distinguish between statements that are "real" and statements that are not "real," (4) become familiar with well-known fairy tales by identifying elements in fairy tales on a matching test, (5) participate in writing assignments that used fairy tales as a theme, (6) learn new vocabulary words from the stories, (7) become familiar with various literary elements found in fantasy such as puns and riddles, (8) become familiar with the literary elements of similes and metaphors, (9) begin to read maps (maps of Disneyland and Oz serve as models), (10) learn to recognize the particular style of fairy tales by filling out a chart during the reading of a story, (11) learn to compare different versions of the same fairy tale, and (12) learn to write descriptive paragraphs. Detailed examples of representative classroom activities are attached, as well as a resource bibliography. (NKA)