What Is a Folktale?

Fairy tales, tall tales, legends, and pourquoi stories are folktales—people have told them for many years.
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Lesson Resources

Teaching Information

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Standards

Language Arts

 

Text that tells a story and text that gives information can be distinguished by certain features and characteristics.

 

Story elements include characters, settings, and major events.

 

Characters in stories have traits that make them unique.

Key Words

folktales

 

fairy tale

 

literary texts

 

magic

 

tall tales

 

exaggerate

 

legends

 

pourquoi story