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Sacred Text Archive

Internet Sacred Text Archive: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch, published in 1855.
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Encyclopedia Mythica

Encyclopedia Mythica: Greek Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Mythica offers a comprehensive resource on Greek mythology. Content includes a look at the principal gods, Zeus's consorts and offspring, the descendants of Prometheus, and much, much more. Click on "browse articles" for a...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Fables

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn the characteristics of fables by separating them from myths and legends, as well as view and read fables from Aesop within this SMART whiteboard lesson.
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Other

China Vista: Selected Chinese Myths and Fantasies

For Students 3rd - 8th
Because myths were not recorded, only fragments and short tales exist today. Here are a dozen or so of the most famous. You can also click to find out more about the history and features of Chinese mythology. (Click home to access...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Legends, Myths, and Other Traditional Tales

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with fifteen links to texts, videos, and websites about legends, myths, fables, and folktales.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

For Students 9th - 10th
Bulfinch's collection of Greek and Roman myths is available here in full text format. A little known feature of this work is its sections on Eastern mythology, Northern mythology and a section on Druid religion.
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Starfall

Starfall: Chinese Fables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Six short stories based on Chinese fables to read online. The stories are at about a Grade 2 reading level.
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Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepard's World of Stories: Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Etc.

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bulfinch's Mythology: Venus and Adonis

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Thomas Bulfinch's account of the famous love affair of Venus and Adonis.
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Age of Fable

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Thomas Bulfinch's Age Of Fable has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Other

Learning Farm 3rd Grade Reading Messages, Lessons, and Morals Lesson

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will watch an introduction into key terms, then read a fables and answers questions with immediate feedback. There is also an option to chose an interactive assessment and play a choice of games once the student has answered the...
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University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Mythology Electronic Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a handy site from the University of Pittsburgh for making comparisons in the folklore of different cultures. It is organized by themes. For instance, you could scroll down to the theme "Man and Serpent," click on that and read...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bulfinch's Mythology: Apollo and Daphne

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Bulfinch's famous version of the great god Apollo at this full text site.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Language & Literary Arts: Collection

For Teachers K - 1st
How do fables and myths explain the unknown and preserve cultures? What makes a good story? How do plays comment on societal issues? Grab a pencil and prepare to create original poems, experience the Civil War through letters, and parse...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Recount Stories

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Learn how to recount a story or tell the plot of a fable, folktale, or myth. Practice exercises are included.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Reading Within Genre [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Good Stories for Great Holidays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A full e-text of this great collection of myths, fables, fairy tales, and historical stories. From the University of Virginia.
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Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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Other

Legends

For Students 3rd - 8th
Looking for fun and entertaining legends to read to your students? Try this site and explore the easy to read online stories. `
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Semantic Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson introduces students to comprehension of knowing how words work. Students learn semantic feature analysis and examine folktales, myths, and fables using this analysis to better understand these terms and texts.
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Micmac and Maliseet Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Micmac and Maliseet culture is preserved through oral history and the tradition of community storytellers. View a sample of storytelling. A great way to introduce students to myths and fables.
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University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh:folk Links Folk:fairy Tale Site

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site offers links to folk tale and fairy tale sites. Students and teachers will benefit from this useful reference guide.

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