Folktales and Fables

FOLKTALES AND FABLES

This unit of work is designed to cover reading and writing using folktales and fables at Grade 2/3 level. ‘Folktales and Fables’ is a complete unit of work including a teacher overview, detailed activities, a 58 slide PowerPoint and 13 accompanying worksheets.

The resource includes a range of lessons and activities for Grade 2 and Grade 3 students of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright color, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery, sound, video and easy to follow, child-friendly language. Activities include:

Exploring and discussing folktales and fables

Discovering multi-modal texts - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks

Individual, pair and group work

How to analyze characters - goodies, baddies and magical characters

Hotseating and role play tasks to develop understanding of character

Sequencing and storyboarding

How to plan a story using the story mountain

How to begin a narrative

Writing task - how to write a folktale

Teaching notes for lessons and assessment

58 slide PowerPoint presentation

13 pages of worksheets/planning documents to accompany the PowerPoint