Written or oral tales featuring regular “folks”
Have been handed down through the years
Little red Riding Hood
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Three Little Pigs
All the stories below
Animals talk and act like humans
Chicken Little
Conejito: A Folktale from Panama
Give Up, Gecko! : A Folktale from Uganda
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Bremen Town Musicians
Go To Sleep Gecko
Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun
Little Red Riding Hood
The Three Little Pigs
Cinderella stories from around the world
The Egyptian Cinderella
The Persian Cinderella
Jouanah: a Hmong Cinderella
Abadeha: the Philippine Cinderella
Cinderella, the dog and her little glass slipper
Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella story from China
The Rough-face girl
Cendrillon: a Caribbean Cinderella
Sootface: an Ojibwa Cinderella story
The gift of the crocodile : a Cinderella story
Mufaro's Beautiful daughter
Details repeat faster and faster
Quick climax and story resolution
The Gingerbread Man
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Goldilocks
Enormous Turnip
Chicken Little
Henny Penny
House that Jack Built
Mabel the Clever
Mitten
Rooster’s Night Out
The Pot that Juan Built
The Old Lady that Swallowed a Fly
Cinderella Stories http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/cinderella.html
Short stories with obvious lessons
Could have happened thousands of years ago or today
Aesop's Fables
Emphasizes Magic and Supernatural
Royal Characters
Set in Medieval Times
Triumph of Good over Evil
Goodness rewarded.
Evil punished
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Beauty and The Beast
The Frog Prince
Rapunzel
Rumpelstilskin
SurLaLune Fairytale Pages http://www.surlalunefairytales.com
Traditional folktales with a twist
Similar plots from different cultures
Any version of a folk/traditional narrative that bears a striking resemblance to another version of the same narrative
Lon Po Po
Prince Cinders
True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Silly stories
There is a character who acts like a fool
The Three Sillies
The Fools of Chelm
Hardy Hardhead
Jack Tales
Six Foolish Fishermen
Why stories
Explain animal traits or characteristics
Explain human customs
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun
Coyote Places the Stars
Keepers of the Earth
Keepers of the Animals
Keepers of Light
Pourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why (Read Write Think)
Mrs. Selk's Pourquoi Resources
Teaching With Pourquoi (Scholastic)
How Tiger Got His Stripes (Story Cove)
Real people characters
Story could really happen
Has language or structure of a tale
Stone Soup
The Tailor/ Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Too Much Noise/It Could Always be Worse
Rooted in truth
Told as though they are true
Tall tales have unbelievable aspects
Pecos Bill
Paul Bunyan
Annie Oakley
John Henry
Daniel Boone
Library Lil
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A character plays tricks on other characters
The trickster is often clever and outwits a stronger opponent
Tops and Bottoms
Gerald McDermott Trickster Tales
Brer Rabbit
Anansi the Spider
Coyote stories
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