Folk Tales Anansi Comparing Folktales Stories Worksheets Organizers 3.2 3.3 3.9

Get the most out of your read alouds by teaching multiple reading standards each time you dive into these fabulous folktales! By repurposing these read alouds with a different focus using these engaging activities, your students will master core reading standards while applying a variety of reading strategies.

With these content rich activities, students will retell and summarize the story, analyze characters' traits, feelings & motives, determine the central message, distinguish their point of view from that of the characters,' and think critically about the story through the rigorous essential questioning posed for response to reading. Your students will not only be highly engaged but they will also find much success with these standards-based targets as they become familiar with the stories each time they are reread for a different purpose. Resources are in both digital and print formats.

These folktales lend themselves to many standards. You can use these activities week-long studies of each story: "Anansi Goes Fishing" and "Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock." Plus, this bundle includes a graphic organizer (with answer key) for the purpose comparing and contrasting characters, settings, plots and central messages. (RL3.9)

⭐As an added bonus, your students will enjoy writing their own Anansi trickster tales using the story planning graphic organizer and spider paper to publish their final pieces.⭐

NOW IN COLORFUL DIGITAL FORMAT for Google Classroom or use the PowerPoint format to assign on other platforms!

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Note: Anansi stories are not included, as it would be a copyright infringement. However, the read alouds can be found on YouTube.

The activities in this resource were designed to engage students in:

• retelling & summarizing the story

• analyzing characters' traits, feelings, and motives

• determining the central message / theme of the folktale using guiding questions

• identifying cause and effect

• determining the points of view / perspective of the characters and the reader’s own POV

• critically thinking about the story through reading response prompts

Included are the following for EACH story:

✔ Teacher’s notes digging deeper into the text

✔ SWBST chart for summarizing the story

✔ Recounting the story: first, then, next, finally

✔ Analyzing characters’ traits & feelings graphic organizers (Anansi, Little Bush Deer, & Turtle)

✔ Determining the central message / theme

✔ Cause & Effect graphic organizers (2 types for scaffolding instruction)

✔ Analyzing characters’ & reader’s points of view

✔ 6 reading response prompts: These questions

prompt students to make inferences,

evaluate, synthesize, and make connections

✔ Answer keys to guide instruction

PLUS- In BONUS file download:

✔ A graphic organizer for comparing & contrasting both stories

✔ A graphic organizer for planning an Anansi trickster tale

✔ Spider writing paper for final drafts

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See what teachers and students ❤️love❤️ about this bundle:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Nicole J. wrote: "This resource is absolutely amazing. We have an Anansi story in our Wonders book and my students wanted more stories and activities to go with folktales. I feel this resource really helped them to understand what a folktale is and other standards."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Dawn A. wrote: "My kids LOVED these stories so much that they wanted to read more Anansi stories. And the trickster tales they wrote were some of the best writing they've done all year. This is a great resource for compare/contrast literary text."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Vegas Disney Teacher wrote: "AMAZING bundle. My students loved completing the activities after reading the Anansi books. So easy for me as a teacher to print/prepare and it perfectly targets the standard. Thanks!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Julia T. wrote: "Thorough resource for trickster tales/folktales with a bonus to implement with readers/writers workshop model."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Valerie D. wrote: "I so enjoy teaching the Anansi books. The students enjoy his trickster ways! This is a wonderful resource to cover a great amount standards and really get the students thinking."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Thriving in Third wrote: "I am so excited to use this next week in class! So, I'm going to tell you why I think this is a great resource. 1. The activities/lessons include higher order thinking skills and questions. 2. Both stories have the same lessons so that you can also hit on compare/contrast at the end of your week/unit. There is even a graphic organizer included so that you can do this :-) 3. I like the language used in the questions. I'm preparing my students for a standardized test where they will be asked to "analyze" "infer" and "draw conclusions." 4. I also like that the packet includes graphic organizers to help students understand the story and break it apart, but that their is also short response activities where students will have to cite evidence to support their answers. This is well worth the $. Can't wait to start using it!"

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