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Short stories Common Core RL.5.4 cultural activities

Iroquois Folk Tales

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Native Americans are great story tellers and each of these 33 Iroquois folk tales is an ideal 2-3 pages in length...perfect to use as a class read-aloud or as authentic text in guided reading groups. Additionally, these Iroquois folk tales are rich in figurative language such as similes, metaphors and personification. Several are origin stories (or pourquois tales) which tell how or why things came to be. These Iroquois folk tales were originally published in 1917 by a white woman named Mabe

Subjects:

Native Americans, Short Stories, Thanksgiving

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Guided Reading Books, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.3.2

, RL.4.1

, RL.5.4

, RL.6.4

Native American Realistic Fiction Close Reading Passages

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Real Native Learning Resources

Look no further for authentic Native American reading passages from the Native American perspective! These five, scaffolded realistic fiction reading passages give a glimpse into modern day Native American life through the lens of different careers common on Indian Reservations. Each passage contains a short, Common Core-aligned assessment. Leveled, Tiered Reading Passages:• Each career reading passage comes in two, Lexile-analyzed versions: a lower (660-720) reading passage and higher (840-900)

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Short Stories

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Literature Circles, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

, RL.3.3

, RL.3.10

, RL.4.1

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Brother Eagle, Sister Sky; a PowerPoint presentation

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Education Island

Attached is a PowerPoint Presentation is designed to correspond with children’s literature book, "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky" with illustrations by Susan Jeffers. It is a Guided Reading Level M book based on the plea made by Chief Seattle in the mid-1850s to the US government to care for the land as the Native American had cared for it. There is an introduction activity that corresponds with the book, “Legends of the Iroquois” where students would read the short story about conservation as an

Subjects:

Native Americans, Short Stories, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.3

, RL.4.6

, RL.4.9

, RL.5.3