Author: Debra Olson Pressnall
Publisher: Key Education Publishing
ISBN: 1602681333
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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11 Leveled Stories to Read Together for Gaining Fluency & Comprehension

Author: Tracey West
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780590365116
Category : Creative activities and seat work
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Tall tale characters like Pecos Bill, Slue Foot Sue, and John Henry put a fun new twist on teaching history, geography, and literature through these engaging activities. Tall Tale Trading Cards instruct about the great rivers, a timeline chronicles the effect of the nation's railroads, and a giant geography poster game makes learning the states a snap!

Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307982599
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.

Author: Adrien Stoutenburg
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780140309287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Stormalong, Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Joe Magarac, with evocative illustrations by Richard M. Powers.

Author: Al Jaffee
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613122632
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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An anthology of the innovative vertical comic strip by the legendary MAD Magazine contributor—with an introduction by Stephen Colbert. Tall Tales was a one-of-a-kind newspaper strip that could only have come from the mind of Al Jaffee. While other newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip—the first, and last, in newspaper history. The original comic strip was syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957–1963. This anthology contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files. The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert.

Author: Jane B. Mason
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439291545
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This collection of stories includes amazing and funny stories about American legends Paul Bunyan, Sal Fink, Stormalong, Bess Call, John Henry, Annie Oakley, and Johnny Appleseed.

Author: Betsy Franco
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545333337
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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12 Favorite Tall Tales With Companion Problems That Build Key Math Skills and Concepts

Author: Ash Gilpin
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781532380525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A Tall Tale About The Dog With The Polka Dotted Tail" is a cute and lovable story about an outcast dog, with a most unusual tail, who learns that he is perfect just the way he is.

Author: Lisa Morris
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317517237
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Shifting your literature instruction to meet the Common Core can be tricky. The standards are specific about how students should analyze characters, themes, point of view, and more. In this new book, Lisa Morris makes it easy by taking you through the standards and offering tons of practical strategies, tools, and mentor texts for grades 2-5. She shows you how to combine the standards into effective units of study so that you can teach with depth rather than worry about coverage. Topics covered include: Teaching questioning, inferring, and author’s purpose; Guiding readers to look at themes and write summaries; Showing students how to recognize structural elements of literature; Teaching the craft of writing and vocabulary development; and Helping students analyse characters and character development. Throughout this highly practical book, you’ll find a variety of charts and other graphic organizers that can be easily adapted for classroom use. A list of suggested mentor texts is also available as a free eResource from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138856172.

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan Moor Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9781557997524
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Read and Understand, Myths and Legends, Grades 4-6+ contains 19 two- and three-page stories that vary in reading difficulty from fourth to ending sixth grades to meet the wide range of needs found in classrooms. The book is divided into three sections by origin of the stories: Greek and Roman Myths--Jason and the Golden Fleece, Pandora, The Adventures of Perseus, and more Norse Myths--Thor and the Giants, Thor's Hammer, Balder the Good Myths and Legends from Around the World--African, Chinese, Mayan, Inuit, Native American, Middle Eastern, and Hawaiian Practice activities for every story include: a comprehension page a vocabulary page There are two pages of practice for skills such as: structural analysis character analysis figures of speech understanding plot development, setting, and mood This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.