BY-NC-NDStakić, Mirjana2021-05-092021-05-0920192560-550Xhttps://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/13164he paper analyses the functionality and illustrates the possibilities of using fairy tales as a language model for teaching grammar in lower elementary school. The exami­nation of the functionality of fairy tales as a language model is based on a theoreti­cal analysis of their genre characteristics, their influence on the development of student per­sonality and their presence in the junior elementary curricula. The results indicate that this literary form is familiar and interesting to students, as well as that it has a significant aesthetic, cognitive and educational potential, which is why it belongs among prescribed content for the second, third and fourth grade of elementary school. Application possi­bilities described in the paper show that both the folktale and literary fairy tale may be used as a language model to teach grammar throughout lower elementary school. The main advantage of these models lies in the fact that a language phenomenon is placed in a context both familiar and interesting to the student. The results mentioned above sug­gest that fairy tales used as a language model not only enable us to achieve intra-cur­ricular correlation, but to motivate students to adopt grammar content as well.sropenAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/srpski jezikmlađi razredi osnovne školenastava gramatikejezički predložakarticle10.46793/Zbradova21.143S