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American Folklore: Delaware Folklore
Read a brief folktale, myth, or legend from the state of Delaware.
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American Folklore: New Hampshire Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of New Hampshire.
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American Folklore: Missouri Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of Missouri.
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American Folklore: Mississippi Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of Mississippi.
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Frog Fables and Parables
All these fables feature frogs as their main characters. Like all fables, they each have a message about life.
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Animal Myths & Legends
Creative site that collects Native American and Australian Aboriginal tales, retelling them in an easy-to-read style. Also collects animal stories, such as how the zebra got its stripes, from kids from all over the world. Includes links...
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Marvine Elementary School: Fables Activity
This activity from the Marvine Elementary School provides a series of crossword puzzles that are linked to a collection of over 40 Aesop's Fables. Students are directed to read a particular fable in order to solve a crossword clue. The...
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America Folklore:paul Bunyan
Users will learn about key components about Paul Bunyan such as the beginning of the story of Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, and other stories.
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Wilsonplays: Elements of Fiction
A chart that lists and defines the elements of a story including: character, setting, events, problem, and solution.
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Create a Fable [Pdf]
Fables include common elements, such as a moral, characters, and a setting. This activity walks students through the process of creating a fable by selecting each item from a list, then putting it all together.
EL Education
El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
TES Global
Blendspace: Legends, Myths, and Other Traditional Tales
A learning module with fifteen links to texts, videos, and websites about legends, myths, fables, and folktales.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Elements
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the five main elements of a fiction story using the example of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Fairytale
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn the elements of a story through fairytales. These include character, setting, plot, and secret ingredient. Includes an Activote session.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Fables
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Fables" by Arnold Lobel. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Desert Beneath the Sea Grade 4
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to accompany Scholastic Literacy Place's story Desert Beneath the Sea, and contains an introduction to the genre, vocabulary work, summarizing practice as well as a timeline...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fabulous Fables
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the characteristics of a fable, gives some history of Aesop with a video clip. Student assessment questions and web links are included. Students end with an original writing...
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Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Story Library: Stories in a Nutshell
This site provides a collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling. Teachers can also view and use the links that contain online lesson plans and activities.
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Story Arts:storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas
Use this site to get young scholars interested in and enthusiastic about storytelling with these cool activity ideas. Look through these short descriptions of activity ideas to help develop a activity to fit your classroom needs.
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Stories by Grandpa
Indian mythology, festivals, and heroes are the subjects of these stories. Each is simply illustrated and the narrator (the grandpa) is identified, as well as the editor who put the story in written form.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements Learn
Learn about story elements by typing the correct story element term for each clue.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice questions and 6 true-false questions over story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Match
In this set interactive game, students match story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, point of view, moral, plot, and...