Folk tales activities

35 Favorite Folk Tale Activities...activities to go with books by Paul Galdone

Folktales Anchor Chart

Multicultural folk stories, legends and myths for kids from around the world teach valuable life lessons about community and how to live a meaningful life.

Elements of Folktales anchor chart

3rd and 4th grade diagram example of how to explain the difference and similarities between folk tales, fairy tales, legends, and fables for kids.

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Fairy Tales are well proven vehicle for Readers’ Theater, but the engagement and learning increases significantly when you also incorporate masks and interactive play. Here’s how we explore fairy tales in my class. Character Masks Creating masks is a fun way to incorporate art into your literacy activities. They are so fun, and sometimes I almost […]

Folktale anchor chart

Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and what fairy tales sometimes have in them. We talked about the Story Elements in each of the Fairy Tales we read this week. Little Red Riding Hood Here is the chart I used to fill in the Story Elements as we talked about them as a class. While filling this chart out, we made our characters and set up our classroom (setting) so we could act out the story. Little Red…

Folk Tales anchor chart

First Grade Reading Fairy Tales Anchor Chart

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Creating fairy tale story maps are a fun and engaging way to integrate literacy and social studies in kindergarten, first, or second grade.

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All the pieces that make up a story.

$ Introduce folk tales to your students with this SmartBoard lesson. Includes slides that describe the five different types of folk tales and the characteristics of each. There are slides for students to match the type of folk tale to the definition and to read a description of a folk tale and decide what type it is.

An Anchor Chart for Introducing Angles from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas!

5 Day of Free Three Billy Goats Gruff Printables – 3 Dinosaurs

For Virtual Book Club for Kids in February we featured crafts and activities inspired by many classic tales. Click here to head over to Virtual Book Club for kids to check out the great crafts