A greedy emperor hears about the boy and demands selfish things of Ma Ling. He dreams one night and receives a magic paintbrush with which he does good deeds. This classic folktale from China tells of a poor boy who wants more than anything to be a painter, but he lacks supplies. He realizes the error of his ways and Rani makes him promise that from then on, he only takes as much rice as he actually needs. The raja doesn’t mind parting with one grain of rice, but by the end of the story, he has given Rani more than one billion grains of rice. She does this by asking him for only one grain of rice, but that for the next 30 days he will have to double the amount. A smart village girl manages to trick the raja into giving her most of the rice so that she can feed her people. When the famine does come, the raja does not make good on his promises and instead lets his people go hungry. He promises to store the rice in case of famine. In this tale a raja decrees that everyone in his province must give him nearly all of their yearly rice crops. One Grain of Rice is a marvelous mathematical folktale by Demi that both of my girls really enjoyed. The list could go on and on, but here are ten that we have recently read that are completely non-traditional for mainstream western world and quite wonderful. One of the things that I find especially fascinating is reading folktales from a wide variety of cultures to see how similar situations are handled differently and how each culture tries to educate its children on how they are supposed to behave. There are so many tales that have been passed down through the generations and we have learned so many valuable lessons from them. I will add a note to update the activity with that info.Folktales are such a wonderful part of children’s literature. The genius of Hans Christian Andersen is that while influenced by oral stories, Andersen created his own fairy tales such as The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina. Hi, Love this chart, but don’t forget some fairy tales do have a known author. When you help clear things for others, you are ever closer to the light! May you be healthy and happy. It was very useful especially the tall tales were rare. You’re welcome, Linda! I’m glad you found it helpful! □ Thanks for the informative chart! It is very helpful when explaining the different genres. Thank you so much! I wish I had seen this last 9 wks when we were studying the unit in kindergarten, but I am storing it away for next year. I just purchased it from your TPT shop and I can't wait to use it with my class. You're very welcome! I hope your kids enjoy it! □ Reply I am starting a unit on folktales with my 4th graders and you've done all the planning for me here! Thank you □ Reply I'm glad you found this helpful! Don't forget to look at the updates that I made at Reply This is great! We do a six week unit on folktales every year and this is perfect for explaining the different genres. *Ends with “And they lived happily, ever after!”ġ4 Responses to “Folktales, Fairytales, and Fables, Oh my!” Solution: Magic, repetition of “3” or “7” Week #2: We reviewed Folktales and then began to define Fairy Tales. (Each week after this, one of the first things I asked them was”Where are the Folktale books?” By the time we were halfway through this anchor chart, those 3rd graders definitely knew “398.2”, and they were SO proud of themselves!) We walked over to this section so they could visually see the bookcases, and know where to go if they wanted to read this type of story. We also reviewed that these stories would be found at 398.2 in the Non-Fiction section of the library. Then I wrote in the names of the six different types of Folktales that we would be focusing on in the next few weeks.
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