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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!" [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
"The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'" is a one page, folktale about a boy who got bored while watching his sheep. He cried, "Wolf" and when the village people came to help him, he laughed. He repeated this a few days later, but then when he really...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: What Is a Fable? [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
"What is a Fable?" is a one page, nonfiction passage about what a fable is including animals that talk and a lesson learned. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: West Virginia Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of West Virginia.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Washington Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Washington.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Virginia Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Virginia.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Texas Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Texas.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Tennessee Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Tennessee.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Pennsylvania Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Pennsylvania.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Oklahoma Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of Oklahoma.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: New York Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of New York.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: New Mexico Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of New Mexico.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Canadian Folklore

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from Canada,
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Key Ideas and Details: Retell Stories

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read a passage to discover how to retell a story then practice what you've learned.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Recount Stories

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Learn how to recount a story or tell the plot of a fable, folktale, or myth. Practice exercises are included.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading Literature: Folktale

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Understand how to read and find the message the exist in a story. Learn how folktales include messages in their stories.
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Website
Other

Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...
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Website
Other

Folktale of the Month

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site provides the reader with a different folktale each month. The folktales are from different areas around the world.
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Narrative Pyramid

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Confict Res.

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Narrative for Expository Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson in which students read various narrative texts which provide a context for them to learn content-area topics. Narratives allow the students to begin to understand expository texts.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Read Aloud as a Springboard to Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Using "Thunder Rose" by Jerdine Nolen, this lesson plan explores elements of tall tales. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Abc Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that are adaptable to many texts that young scholars may be reading. Students analyze the text for literary elements such as characters, setting, figures of speech, and themes, and then publish their...