Click on the image below for a power point introduction to this genre.
Click on the image below for folktales and fable on PBS Kids Between the Lions.
Folktales
We can use the story of the Three Little Pigs
to address many common core standards.
Common Core: RL 3.2
In this lesson, you will learn to recount the key events in a story by using the illustration to track the action.
In this lesson, you will learn to recount the key events in a story by using the illustration to track the action.
Common Core: RL 3.3
In this lesson, you will learn to describe characters’ traits by focusing on key events and asking, “What does this event teach me about the characters?”
In this lesson, you will learn to describe characters’ traits by focusing on key events and asking, “What does this event teach me about the characters?”
Common Core: RL 3.7
Describe a character's traits using key events
In this lesson, you will learn to describe characters’ traits by focusing on key events and asking, “What does this event teach me about the characters?”
Describe a character's traits using key events
In this lesson, you will learn to describe characters’ traits by focusing on key events and asking, “What does this event teach me about the characters?”
Common Core: RL 3.1
Analyze why a character behaves a certain way
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze character motivations by noticing a character’s actions and asking,
“Why did that character just do that?”
Analyze why a character behaves a certain way
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze character motivations by noticing a character’s actions and asking,
“Why did that character just do that?”
COMMON CORE: RL.3.5
Make connections between key events using text structure
In this lesson you will learn to describe how key events in the story are connected by asking questions about the text structure.
Make connections between key events using text structure
In this lesson you will learn to describe how key events in the story are connected by asking questions about the text structure.
COMMON CORE: RL.3.3
Explain how a character's actions contribute to the sequence of events
In this lesson you will learn to describe how the characters’ traits and motivations contribute to the sequence of events by asking, “What character trait or motivation made this event happen?”
Explain how a character's actions contribute to the sequence of events
In this lesson you will learn to describe how the characters’ traits and motivations contribute to the sequence of events by asking, “What character trait or motivation made this event happen?”
Click below to watch The Three Little Pigs on Between the Lions.
Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales are a type of Folk Tale
What are fables and trickster tales?
Fables and trickster tales are short narratives that use animal characters with human features
to help us understand human nature and human behavior.
These stories were originally passed down through story telling and were eventually written down.
to help us understand human nature and human behavior.
These stories were originally passed down through story telling and were eventually written down.
Click on the image below to launch a power point.
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Aesop's Fables
Click below to read fables in this collection from the Library of Congress.
Trickster Tales
Click on the image below for a power point introduction to the three
Trickster Tales that are in your reading book.
Click below to watch The Emperor's New Clothes on Between the Lions.
Teacher Resources
read_to_someonetrickster.docx | |
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folktalebookletandposters.pdf | |
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trickstertalecomparison.docx | |
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