Folktale Themes and Activities for Children, Volume 1: Pourquoi Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563085215)

Traditional pourquoi tales (how-and-why stories) offer many exciting opportunities for learning. Kraus' bibliography and activity guide helps you design exciting story times and extend and explore tales with students. Activity pages (e.g., Venn diagrams, shadow puppets, multimedia projects), teaching ideas, a list of story themes, an annotated bibliography of further reading, and other materials can be used to prepare story hours, art and drama projects, literature reading units, cultural explorations, and science and nature studies. A convenient feature of this guide is the extensive chart that organizes pourquoi tales by theme, topic, and motif so they can be used as multicultural links to other areas of study. Tales are also organized by cultural and geographical groups, providing opportunities for integrating multicultural concepts into science, literature, and social studies.

Author: Anne Kraus
ISBN-10: 1563085216
ISBN-13: 9781563085215
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1998
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 10.90w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/1999 pg. 41