Traditional Literature is so much fun to use in the classroom. I was surprised to find out that Stone Fox by John Gardiner was traditional literature, I would have considered it historical fiction. As a little girl I loved and still do, fairy tales. It was always so much fun to read about some enchanted princess encounter some terrible evil and then miraculously be saved to live happily ever after. Traditional literature includes sub-genres like fables, myths, legends, tall tales, folk tales, and religious stories.
I found it amazing that the traditional story Cinderella had been told around the world in some form or another. I read many Cinderella stories deciding which one I wanted to use for my annotated bibliography. They all had an element of the Cinderella story I was familiar with. Sometimes Cinderella only had one sister instead of two. Or her father didn't actually die, or she had a fur boot instead of a glass slipper. The theme was always the same though, a young girl mistreated and then perseveres.
I think a fun activity to do with a folk tales is to play telephone with the class. Folk takes are stories passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, it is easy to assume that not all parts of the tales are true because they may not have been repeated 100% accurately.
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