Folktales

This type of story includes hyperbole and a character larger than life.  

• fable
• tall tale
• myth
• legend

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This type of story includes a moral lesson. 

• tall tale
• fable
• pourqoi
• myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This type of story includes heavy symbolism. 

• fable
• tall tale
• black folktale
• myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

This type of story includes supernatural beings like gods and wood nymphs and often tells of the origin of things. 

• tall tale
• legend
• myth
• pourqoi

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This type of story includes how something came to be in nature. 

• fable
• tall tell
• myth
• pourqoui

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . . "Once upon a time a king rose to power and saved his country from a great, fiery dragon." 

• myth
• legend
• tall tale
• pourqoui

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . ."always remember, a penny saved is a penny earned."

• myth
• lesson
• fable
• pourqoui

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which type of story?. . ."and that's how the leopard got its spots."

• myth
• legend
• pourqoui
• fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . ."Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue."

• fable
• myth
• legend
• tall tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which type of story?. . ."Echo was a beautiful nymph, fond of the woods and hills, where she devoted herself to woodland sports."

• myth
• legend
• fable
• pourqoui

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9