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The Children's Nursery and Its Traditions
An extensive list of links to Children's Nursery classics organized by page/chapter. Includes Beatrix Potter, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Brothers Grimm tales and more!
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Reading Within Genre [Pdf]
A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Good Stories for Great Holidays
A full e-text of this great collection of myths, fables, fairy tales, and historical stories. From the University of Virginia.
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Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
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India parenting.com: Children's Stories and Legends
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Text Structure
[Free Registration/Login Required] 6 text structures - diary, fiction, nonfiction, biography, fairy tale, fable, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Louisa's Sparkling Gems by Laura Valentine, Ed.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Aunt Louisa's Sparkling Gems by Laura Valentine, Ed. (1866), a collection of illustrated Aesop's Fables, fairy tales, and poetry.
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Los Siete Poderes
Delve into 14 chapters of the captivating story of the "Seven Powers," and see how it all ends in the final combat. This site was created with the reader in mind because of its excellent font selection.
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Folktale of the Month
This site provides the reader with a different folktale each month. The folktales are from different areas around the world.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Three Little Pigs" by Joseph Jacobs
A learning module that begins with the short story "The Three Little Pigs" by Joseph Jacobs, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh: Mythology Electronic Texts
This is a handy site from the University of Pittsburgh for making comparisons in the folklore of different cultures. It is organized by themes. For instance, you could scroll down to the theme "Man and Serpent," click on that and read...
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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.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Lesson: Exploring Russian Folktales
Expand on your students' knowledge of storytelling with this lesson plan on Russian folktales. Provides several links to examples, assessment criteria, and a short list of other sources.
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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Beowulf Trivia Quizzes
This FunTrivia provides four modules of Beowulf timed quizzes. Students will be able to review the famous epic and answer main idea and detail questions about Beowulf.