Traditional LIterature

This is a short folktale that often involves personified animals and teaches a lesson or moral.

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Tall Tale

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This is type of story explains something about the world such as natural phenomenon, how things came to be, or what gods and goddesses have done.

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Tall Tale

A fictional, faraway place in a nonspecific time period in the past.

• Fairy Tale

• Fable

• Tall Tale

• Myth

This is type of story often has some fact mixed with some fiction, focuses on heroic people and some of the characters actions are exaggerated.

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Tall Tale

This is type of story is filled with unbelievable exaggerations but is told as if it were true. They are meant to be funny.

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Tall Tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9