Folktale Themes and Activities for Children, Volume 1: Pourquoi Tales

by Anne Kraus

Overview

Traditional pourquoi tales (how-and-why stories) offer many exciting opportunities for learning. Kraus' bibliography and activity guide helps you design exciting story times and extend and explore tales with students. Activity pages (e.g., Venn diagrams, shadow puppets, multimedia projects), teaching ideas, a list of story themes, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and other materials can be used to prepare story hours, art and drama projects, literature reading units, cultural explorations, and science and nature studies. A convenient feature of this guide is the extensive chart that organizes pourquoi tales by theme, topic, and motif so they can be used as multicultural links to other areas of study. Tales are also organized by cultural and geographical groups, providing opportunities for integrating multicultural concepts into science, literature, and social studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563085215
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/15/1998
Series:	Learning Through Folklore Series , #1
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	6 - 11 Years

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

In this clearly written, well-organized volume, Kraus demonstrates how educators can integrate traditional pourquoi tales into almost all areas of the curriculum. She explains how these tales connect us to our past and to other cultures and why understanding these connections is so important in the modern world. Throughout, the author emphasizes the need to select authentic, well-told tales, and she provides extensive bibliographies to aid in such selection. Stories are organized by theme and motif, as well as by cultural and geographic groups, facilitating links to diverse areas of study. Creative activities, such as Venn diagrams, shadow puppetry, and multimedia projects, could be easily adapted to suit a variety of age and ability levels. A solid, carefully researched combination of the philosophical and the practical, this resource is not to be missed.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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