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- The Legend of the Blue Bonnet
- Students will create their own version/retelling of The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tomie dePaola
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Shari Peacock.
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain.
- The big, bad, red wolf: Fact and fantasy
- This lesson will explore the myths and legends surrounding wolves. We will also investigate factual information about the endangered red wolf.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Steven Sather.
- Bulletin board of story elements
- This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
- This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Amber Miller.
- Connecting folktales and culture in North Carolina and beyond
- Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jeanne Munoz.
- The Frog Prince: Compare and contrast
- This lesson can be used with numerous pieces of literature, films, or sound material to develop viewing and listening skills and the students' ability to compare and contrast. One of the richest sources is in the area of fairy tales and folktales. This an especially good source if you can find a modernized version in recorded form to contrast with the more traditional written form. I have used the "Frog Prince" because of this factor and because it was part of the 4th grade language arts reading unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Barbara Waters.
- Getting in order: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- The students will read "Jack and the Beanstalk" as a group and create flip books to illustrate and sequence the main events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Leslie Robinson1.
- Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?
- This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales
- In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts)
- By Hardin Engelhardt.
- Modern folk tales: Playwriting
- Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Theater Arts Education)
- By Dayle Payne.
- North Carolina American Indian stories
- In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Janice Gardner.
- One Grain of Rice
- One Grain of Rice is a mathematical folktale from India that covers the concept of doubling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Katherine Williamson.
- Pigs and wolf on a map!
- The students will construct a Double Bubble Map to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts)
- By Cherry Randall.
- Similes
- "The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By jennifer lettieri.
- Story tellers and poets
- Students will examine the style, purpose, and organization of folktales and poetry in order to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of both genres. With this knowledge, students will use the word choice and repetition of traditional folktales to transform them into modern poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.
- Storytelling with Cherokee folktales
- This is a two day lesson pertaining to telling Cherokee folktales. This lesson can be modified and used with any folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Ricky Hamilton.
- Teaching point of view
- In this lesson plans, students compare and contrast a folktale and a 1903 primary source account in order to gain an understanding of point of view.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Strother.
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
- The wolf in children's books
- Students will explore the ways wolves are represented in children's stories. They will decide if the wolf is a protagonist or an antagonist in the story. They will also attempt to determine if these representations are scientifically accurate. The first in a two-part lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Vanessa Olson.
