Fables, Fairy Tales and Folklore

• Fairy Tales, Myths, Fables, and Legends by Miss Chaffee - brief description of each - PowerPoint
• Folk and Fairy Tales http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/isu/library/documents/Folktalesandfairytales.ppt
• Folktales http://www.opencourtresources.com/teaching/OCRunits/folktales/Folktales.ppt
• Myths, Folktales, Fables and Fairytales - brief description of each http://www.lexington1.net/technology/instruct/lessons/elementary/kdfolklore/kdfolklore.ppt

Fables

• Aesop online collection - straight text, but with lesson plans
• Aesop fables - ill. and retold by MU students - need Flash
• Aesop fables: by Tom Lynch -- Tortoise and Hare, Follish Crow, Fox and his shadow, Lion and Mouse - audio/video
• Fables: a short anthology - shortened versions of the stories in PowerPoint
• Fables: matching story with moral - PowerPoint
• Fables - explanation, plus lesson plan asking students to write own - PowerPoint
• Fables - list of links from EThemes

Fairy Tales

• Cinderella stories
• Classic Fairy Tales - a list of links to various, by country
• Fairy Tales - Childrenstory.com - online stories with RealAudio
• Fairy Tales http://www.legends.dm.net/fairy/index.html
• Fairy Tales - list of links from EThemes - internet resources for teaching and sharing
• SurLaLune Fairy Tale A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 26 annotated fairy tales, with histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,000 illustrations
• Grimm's fairy tales - National Geographic
• Hans Christian Anderson - chronilogical list of titles with stories online
  • more Hans Christian Andersen - simple text stories alphabetical
• Romanian Fairy Tales (3)
• Russian Fairy Tales
• What makes a fairy tale a fairy tale

  Fractured Fairy Tales

  • Fractured Fairy Tales lesson plan

Folklore - StoryCove - animated online stories read from every continent - need to register

• Africa
  • Anansi, Firefly, and Tiger
  • How monkey looked for trouble (Trinidad)
  • Jackal and the leopard (Ethiopia)
  • Marriage of Mouse (Ethiopia)
  • Why crocodile has a rough back (Angola)
  • Rabbit, elephant, and the whale (Mauritius)
    • Rabbit, Elephant and the whale
• American Folklore.net retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States.
• Anansi
  • Anansi Web Quest - grades 3 and 4
• Folklore and Mythology electronic texts
• Folktales from around the world
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Middle East
• Japanese Folk Tales
  • Stonecutter video and lesson plan - Teacher Domain
• Native American folklore
• Norwegian Folk Tales
• Raven stories
  • Teacher Domain video and lesson plan

Legends

• Legends - classic Robin Hood types
• Legends - animal pourquoi tales retold by students

Myths

• Creation myths - from BigMyth - audio/video stories from different cultures
• Creation myths
• Myths and legends - many cultures, by region - with religion and deities

Fairy Tales, Myths and Folklore - with lesson plans, some written by students - Scholastic

Pourquoi stories and tales - E Themes and also ReadWriteThink and TeacherDomain (with video)

• Anansi the spider - characteristics - pourquoi tale - Teachers'Domain lesson plan
• Why cats wash after they eat - audio/video
• Lesson plan sheet for animal -Porque Tale - Fox Tales International

Tall tales -- putting Tall Tales on the map - United States map

• Tall Tales - PPT
• Tall Tales - list of links from EThemes - internet resouces for teaching and sharing
• Tall Tales - 42explore - links
• Web resorces for Tall Tale Activities - webinstitutefortheteacher.org

Video views

• E Stories by Story Teller - Enoch Pratt Free Library - several folk tales