Selected Unit Materials All Around the World — Folk Tales for the Digital Age: A unit plan including objectives, history, and timeline (PDF) Print Resources Ragan, Kathleen, & Yolen, Jane. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales From Around the World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN: 0393320464 Raspanti, Celeste. I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Woodstock, Ill.: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1971. ISBN: 0871292769 Stern, Anita. World Folktales - An Anthology of Multicultural Folk Literature, Teacher’s Guide. Chicago: National Textbook Publishing Group, 1994. ISBN: 0844207829 Walker, Lois. Readers Theatre Strategies in the Middle and Junior High Classroom. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Meriwether Publishing, 1997. ISBN: 1566080274 Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folk Tales From Around the World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. ISBN: 0394751884 Web Sites The Alma Project: A Cultural Curriculum Infusion Model
http://almaproject.dpsk12.org/stories/storyReader$22
Rich curriculum including the creation and dramatization of folk tales and the comparison of folk tales from diverse cultures Story Arts Online
http://www.storyarts.org/index.html
Dedicated to the art of storytelling, including stories, plots, lesson plans, activities, links, and classroom resources Storynet: National Storytelling Network
http://www.storynet.org/
Bringing together and nurturing individuals and organizations that use the power of storytelling in all its forms Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/index.html
An extensive collection of annotated and categorized storytelling resources Elements of Folk Tales
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-5/Tall_Tales_Today.aspx
A unit in which students read traditional folk tales and view filmed versions of those stories NEXT: About the School
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