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The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Writing Folktales Lesson PlanThe Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Writing Folktales Lesson Plan
Publisher
John F. Kennedy Center
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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Lesson Plans
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Lexile Measures
960L
Lesson Plan

The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Writing Folktales

Curated by ACT

With this lesson plan, students examine the American tradition of folk tales and tall tales, then write and illustrate their own original tale. Provides links to more information, an assessment rubric, extension ideas, and a list of sources.

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Concepts

creative writing, oral tradition, storytelling

Additional Tags

animal tale, art links to social studies, folk tale, fool's tale, writing stories, american stories, artsedge, kennedy center, fairy tale, tall tale, folktale

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.5.9

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