This site provides brief tall tales from many different states. The site also provides what they all have in common.

This magazine article discusses tall tales and how they began to make life easier in a very hard life.

This lesson plan is for the book A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North and is designed for students in grades 2?4. Teachers can use the ideas here for history, literature, art, social studies, geography, research skills, and to spark...

Using "Thunder Rose" by Jerdine Nolen, this lesson plan explores elements of tall tales. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

Goofy stories and larger-than-life adventures populate this list of tall tales.

Fourth graders write and read aloud an exaggerated story using multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.

This is a review of 3 stories, then placing the attributes with the correct genre. Although others may not read the exact story, you could just replace the picture with another picture that represents the story you read.

Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).

This online version of the tall tale of Paul Bunyan features illustrations of this American folk hero.

Site features retellings of folktales from each state retold by S.E. Schlosser. This one is from Idaho.

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students proofread and correct mistakes in a writing piece, and then apply the writing process to create a tall tale story. Additionally, this lesson helps students understand the purposes and elements...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart accompanies the story Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind from the Scholastic Reading Series, Literacy Place for 4th grade. It introduces and discusses the genre of tall tales, vocabulary,...

The novel The Big Snapper, written by Katherine Holubitsky, looks at the idea of tall tales helping a young boy as he struggles with the difficult issues in his life - an absent father, a beloved grandfather who falls ill, and struggling...

Looking for American folktales? Look no more! Choose from famous characters, states, historical events, regional, or ethnic folklore. There are also links to weatherlore and spooky stories.

In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....

Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of Alabama.

Read a brief folktale, myth or legend from the state of Alaska.

Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of Arizona.

Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of California.

Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Colorado.

Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Florida.

Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of Georgia.