Education World – Gary Hopkins
“Fables, fairy tales, folktales, legends, myths, and tall tales — six literary genres that engage student interest — can be used in the classroom to inspire creative thinking and writing. This week, Education World offers five lessons to introduce students to the literary genres — and to their own imagination! Included: Graphic organizers, student work sheets, more! Once upon a time, in a day long ago, there lived incredibly prolific storytellers. Their stories have been passed down, retold, translated, adapted, and even “Readers Theater-ized”! In this week’s Education World lessons plans, your students will have opportunities to retell, adapt, and, yes, Readers Theater-ize marvelous fairy tales, fables, folktales, legends, myths, and tall tales from origins around the world and across the centuries. Click on each of the five lesson headlines below for a complete teaching resource.”(more)