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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Folk Tales

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive collection of six folk tales. Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Four Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Four Friends". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Mr. Bunny's Carrot Soup

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "Mr. Bunny's Carrot Soup". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Little Red Hen

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Little Red Hen". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Little Rooster

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Little Rooster". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Chicken Little

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "Chicken Little". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Turnip

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Turnip". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Website
Sacred Text Archive

Internet Sacred Text Archive: Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria Index

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
There are forty "Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria" listed for your reading pleasure. Stories range from "The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter" to "Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky".
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Primary
Other

Dutch by Kay Ryan

For Students 9th - 10th
This narrative poem retells the Dutch folktale about a little boy who saved his country from flooding by poking his finger in a dike.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Tall Tales, Folk Tales, and Fables Review

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
This is a review of 3 stories, then placing the attributes with the correct genre. Although others may not read the exact story, you could just replace the picture with another picture that represents the story you read.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Louis Rhead's Bold Robin Hood And His Outlaw Band has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Website
Other

Legends

For Students 3rd - 8th
Looking for fun and entertaining legends to read to your students? Try this site and explore the easy to read online stories. `
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Website
Other

Wheel Council: Brer Rabbit and the Mosquitoes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Whichever animal can put up with the mosquitoes swarming around them will be allowed to court Brer Wolf's daughter. Brer Rabbit, in his tricky way, manages to "put up" with the mosquitoes and wins the right to go walking with Brer Wolf's...
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Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Folk Tales [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief organizer in which students can list examples from their current reading selection which represent elements from the folk tale, such as the supernatural, good over evil, and moral lessons.
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eBook
Topmarks Online

Topmarks Education: A Traditional Story: The Gingerbread Man

For Students K - 1st
Read the traditional story of the Gingerbread Man who runs from the little old woman who made him, and from several other characters who want to eat him, until he comes across a fox who offers to help.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Legends, Myths, and Other Traditional Tales

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with fifteen links to texts, videos, and websites about legends, myths, fables, and folktales.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Kyrgyzstan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students share in the reading of a Kyrgyzstan folktale, Mother Wolf and learn a little background on the Peace Corps. Students then watch a video that was created by the Peace Corps and focuses on three...
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Activity
Other

Grimm Fairy tales.com

For Students Pre-K - 1st
You can read and hear animated stories from the Brothers Grimm on this site. There are also links to games, fun stuff, and a featured story.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Stone Cutter

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Folktale Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Listen to folk tales from around the world, and recreate one of the stories in a play.
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Primary
Other

Clarity Connect: African Folktales

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Links more than a hundred African folktales from Nigeria, South Africa, Zulu, West Africa, and more.
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Website
Other

India parenting.com: Children's Stories and Legends

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read popular Indian fables, Jakata tales, Birbal and other stories or learn about famous Indian people like Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Ashoka the Great, or Mother Teresa. Also includes a collection of classic western fables and fairy...