ELA Unit 3

Stories Worth Telling Again and Again exposes students to stories with valuable lessons that can be applied to their own lives. Students will appreciate literary heritages and compare cultures through the use of folklore. Students will read traditional literature in order to identify similarities and differences across cultures and apply this analysis to a variety of tasks. Students will have an opportunity to use the common themes of traditional literature to better understand themselves.

Featured Texts:

Coyote Places the Stars

Lon Po Po

The Adventures of Spider

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

One Grain of Rice

The Empty Pot