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S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Tall Tales

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides brief tall tales from many different states. The site also provides what they all have in common.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Born on a Mountaintop: Davy Crockett, Tall Tales & History

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
These four lesson plans integrate the life of Davy Crockett and the tall tales that were created about him. Includes a printable rubric, activity extensions, links, and much more!
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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 4, Issue 6: Tall Tales [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
This magazine article discusses tall tales and how they began to make life easier in a very hard life.
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Website
Other

Tall Tales and Tricksters

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about what a tall tale is and also lists some tall tales and their characters. There are many book references to help.
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Other

A Small Tall Tale From the Far Far North, by Peter Sis [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan is for the book A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North and is designed for students in grades 2?4. Teachers can use the ideas here for history, literature, art, social studies, geography, research skills, and to spark...
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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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Other

Stories for Scouts: Tall Tales and Campfire Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Goofy stories and larger-than-life adventures populate this list of tall tales.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Bad Baxter Barton" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Bad Baxter Barton," students will participate in a dramatization of a poem. Adapted from the poem "Bad Baxter Barton" originally published in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones) by Eric Ode, students will assume roles...
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Handout
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue

For Students 3rd - 5th
The tall tale of Pecos Bill and Slue-foot Sue are retold by S.E. Schlosser.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Oh Baloney! Incorporating Large Numbers Into Tall Tales

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders write and read aloud an exaggerated story using multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.
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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Larger Than Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Writing Folktales

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
With this lesson plan, students examine the American tradition of folk tales and tall tales, then write and illustrate their own original tale. Provides links to more information, an assessment rubric, extension ideas, and a list of...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: "Knot" the Whole Truth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
The writer will analyze and discuss the tall tale format after reading Jerry Spinelli's tale of Cobble's Knot, told in Chapter 20 of Maniac Magee. Then writers will need to create an interesting character in a special situation which...
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Website
Other

Paul Bunyan: The Giant Lumberjack

For Students 3rd - 5th
This online version of the tall tale of Paul Bunyan features illustrations of this American folk hero.
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Primary
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore: Idaho Potatoes: An Idaho Tall Tale

For Students 3rd - 5th
Site features retellings of folktales from each state retold by S.E. Schlosser. This one is from Idaho.
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eBook
Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepard's World of Stories: Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Etc.

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spelling and Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students proofread and correct mistakes in a writing piece, and then apply the writing process to create a tall tale story. Additionally, this lesson helps students understand the purposes and elements...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart accompanies the story Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind from the Scholastic Reading Series, Literacy Place for 4th grade. It introduces and discusses the genre of tall tales, vocabulary,...
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eBook
Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Lightning Larry

For Students 2nd - 8th
At this site listen to a tale retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as writing ideas and posters.
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: The Big Snapper Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 6th
The novel The Big Snapper, written by Katherine Holubitsky, looks at the idea of tall tales helping a young boy as he struggles with the difficult issues in his life - an absent father, a beloved grandfather who falls ill, and struggling...
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Website
S.E. Schlosser

American Folklore

For Students 3rd - 8th
Looking for American folktales? Look no more! Choose from famous characters, states, historical events, regional, or ethnic folklore. There are also links to weatherlore and spooky stories.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help young scholars expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and...

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