Pourquoi Tales

What do Pourquoi Tales explain?

• What color the animals are.

• Why animals behave the way they do.

• Why something is as it is.

• What I should eat for dinner.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Pourquoi Tales explains something in...

• my house

• in nature

• at school

• in my community

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Pourquoi Tales explain...

• How something came to be

• How I got my name

• Hot I became a 3rd grader

• How I began to read

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which one is an example of a Pourquoi Tale?

• Junie B Jones First Grader

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• Rainbow Fish

• Why mosquitos buzz in people's ears

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Many _________ are Pourquoi Tales

• Fiction books

• Fairy Tales

• Legends and Folk Tales

• Nonfiction books

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9