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Scholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales Lesson PlanScholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales Lesson Plan
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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Scholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales

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Collection of folktales, myths, and fairy tales from around the world. Scholastic provides lesson plans and activities to help students understand and even create their own myth, folktale, or fairy tale.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

fairy tales, folktales, myths

Additional Tags

ethnic folklore, folklore, multicultural stories, stories with a theme, multi-cultural folktales, fairy tale, myth

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RL.3.2 RL.4.9 RL.8.9 W.8.9.a RL.5.9

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