Autumn Poem
"Cendrillon," by Robert D. San Souci (fairy tale [adaptation])
- Read Folk Tale Stories in a Nutshell and write a storyboard depicting the plot
- Aesop's ABC Fables and write a summary
"Heat Wave," by Helen Ketterman (tall tale)
SPELLING
That's Amazing! Reading-Writing Workshop Spelling List
Cold Snap
Use your imagination to make the coldest spots on Earth even colder!Amazing Art
Explore images that can only be seen through the mind's eye.
LINKS
The Web site below will keep imaginations buzzing with ideas for story writing and storytelling.
Storytelling in the Classroom
Here you'll find storytelling lesson plans and activities, a story library offering folktale plots for student retelling, an Aesop's ABC featuring 26 fables, and many, many other features designed to help you and your students explore the ancient art of storytelling—and create your own amazing stories.Forms of Traditional Literature
Here you will find folk tales, fables, tall tales, myths, and epics. Learn more about this different genres and enjoy the stories!
FURTHER
READING
VERY EASY
Sector 7
by David Wiesner
Houghton 1999 (48p)
This almost wordless book follows the adventures of a boy who creates
new shapes for clouds.
June 29, 1999
by David Wiesner
Clarion 1992 (32p) also paper
Holly Evans's science experiment causes giant vegetables to appear
all across America.
Secrets from the Dollhouse
by Ann Turner
Harper 2000 (32p)
In a series of poems, Emma, a doll, tells of her family's life.
Swine Lake
by James Marshall
Harper 1999 (40p)
When a lean and hungry wolf stumbles onto a stage of dancing pigs,
he is in for a big surprise.
The Best Place
by Susan Meddaugh
Houghton 1999 (32p)
A wolf who loves his screened-in porch suddenly wonders if it is the
best place in the world.
EASY
Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey
by Joy Cowley
Scholastic 1996 (32p)
Miguel befriends Gracias, who is supposed to be Thanksgiving dinner.
Multicultural
A Day with Wilbur Robinson
by William Joyce
Harper 1990 (32p) also paper
A visitor finds that a day at Wilbur Robinson's house is filled with
strange and wonderful adventures.
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
by William Joyce
Harper 1995 (48p)
The Lazardo family returns from Africa with a dinosaur who becomes
a baseball hero.
Hog-Eye
by Susan Meddaugh
Houghton 1995 (32p)
A young piglet, captured by a wolf, uses her smarts to get away and
regale her family with her story.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
Viking 1989 (32p) also paper
A. Wolf, claiming he was framed, wants to set the record straight.
Available in Spanish as La verdadera historia de los tres cerditos.
ON LEVEL
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
by Ai-Ling Louie
Putnam 1993 (32p)
A fish helps Yeh-Shen become the bride of the prince.
Multicultural
Squids Will Be Squids
by Jon Scieszka
Viking 1998 (48p)
Both familiar and unfamiliar fables get a zany twist.
* Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton 1981 (32p)
Two children get more than they bargain for in a mysterious jungle-adventure
board game. Also available in Spanish.
Classic
The Way Meat Loves Salt
by Nina Jaffe
Holt 1998 (32p)
The author retells a Cinderella story from the Eastern European Jewish
tradition.
The Irish Cinderlad
by Shirley Climo
Harper 1996 (32p) also paper
Becan rescues Princess Finola, his future bride.
A Big Cheese for the White House
by Candace Fleming
DK Ink 1999 (32p)
In this strange-but-true story, the citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts,
present Thomas Jefferson with a 1,235-pound cheese.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
Atheneum 1978 (32p)
Delicious food rains from the sky in the town of Chewandswallow.
My Nine Lives by Clio
by Marjorie Priceman
Atheneum 1998 (48p)
Clio, now in her ninth life, describes all the contributions she's
made to civilization.
Black
and White
by David Macaulay
Houghton 1990 (32p)
Macaulay tells four stories at once, or is it really just one story?
The
Orphan Boy
by Tololwa Mollel
Clarion 1990 (32p)
An old man becomes curious about the mysterious powers of an orphan
boy.
Multicultural
The
Wreck of the Zephyr
by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton 1983 (32p)
An old sailor relates a very strange story.
CHALLENGE
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Knopf 1961 (120p) also paper
Inside a peach, James sets off on splendid adventures.
Classic
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Random 1961 (256p) also paper
Driving his small electric car through a miniature tollbooth, Milo
enters The Lands Beyond.
Classic
Poppy
by Avi
Orchard 1995 (160p) also paper
With unfortunate results, Poppy, a deer mouse, defies Mr. Ocax, a great
horned owl who rules Dimwood Forest.
Ragweed
by Avi
Avon 1999 (178p)
A young country mouse leaves his family and moves to the city.
