10 Fairy Tales in Italian
Ten Simplified Mini-Dramas
by Paula Camardella Twomey

These ten mini-dramas can be acted out in your classroom, improving your students’ vocabulary skills, oral and reading skills, while helping develop their critical thinking. Role-play is always a natural motivator and a sure-fire way of ensuring 100% participation in class.  The scripts follow the traditional plot lines of ten well-known fairy tales. Each begins with a page of target vocabulary words that will be encountered in the story.

The 10 Fairy Tales include:

1.  “Riccioli d’Oro e i Tre Orsi” (“Goldilocks and the Three Bears”)
2. “Cappuccetto Rosso” (“Little Red Riding Hood”)
3. “Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”)
4. “La Piccola Gallina Rossa” (“The Little Red Hen”)
5. “L’Omino di Pan di Zenzero”  (“The Gingerbread Man”)
6. “I Tres Capri Rochi” (“The Three Billy Goats Gruff”)
7. “I Tre Porcellini” (“The Three Little Pigs”)
8. “Biancaneve e I Sette Nani”  (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”)
9. “Il Pifferaio Magico” (“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”)
10.  “La Bella Addormentata nel Bosco” (“Sleeping Beauty”)