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Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

American Tall Tales

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Tall Tales for Kids

It's storytelling time! Bring the magic of tall tales closer to home by creating a tall tale based on someone your child knows and admires.

Writing a Tall Tale

Exaggeration in storytelling is no big secret. Help your child write a story about himself with this exercise in telling tall tales.

Tell a Tall Tale

Color in Casey Jones, a brave engineer from Tennessee with a tall tale to tell.

Tall Tales Coloring Pages: Casey Jones

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

What is a Tall Tale?

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Tall Tale Characters

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Write Your Own Tall Tale

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

John Henry Tall Tale

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

Building Brick Challenge: Build a Tall Tower

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Vocabulary Cards: Elements of Fairy Tales

As your learners identify physical and internal character traits, make sure they provide evidence. Use this as a stand alone lesson, or as a pre-lesson for the <a href="https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/fairy-tales-character-traits/" target="_blank">Fairy Tales: Character Traits</a> lesson.

Character Traits in Fairy Tales

Spark an interest in reading with an introduction to four classic tales. Coloring pages make old and new stories accessible, especially for reluctant readers.

Fairy Tales: Classics Known and New

In this literary lesson, students use fairy tales to practice identifying character traits. Students are challenged to justify their reasoning using text based support.

Fairy Tales: Character Traits

Use this lesson to help students identify the elements of a fictional text while gaining more knowledge about parts of speech. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements.

Elements of Fairy Tales

Story elements help to bring beloved fairy tales to life in this literacy lesson. Your students will learn to identify the title, author, setting, characters, problem, and solution in a fiction text.

Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Paul Bunyan

Is a giraffe more likely to be 15 feet tall or 25 inches tall? You probably don't need to get out your ruler to get to the correct answer. Assess student understanding of inches, centimeters, feet, and meters with this estimation check-in.

Estimation Check-in

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Johnny Appleseed Story

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Fact Versus Fiction

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Mixed Up Fairy Tales

How tall are the picnic tables at Parker City Park? This worksheet requires your students to use their measuring skills.

Measuring Tables 

Encourage your second grader to help Geraldine keep track of how tall her sunflower grows with this fun addition worksheet.

Flower Power Addition #1

A tall glass of lemonade is the perfect summer treat. Make it even better with these creative twists on classic lemonade!

Lemonade Recipes

Cheetahs are fast, but not too fast to be colored on this cheetah coloring page! A pair of tall wildebeests look on with interest.

Cheetah Coloring Page

Do you know how long your scissors are or how tall your glue bottle is? Give it your best guess in this measurement worksheet!

Estimating Measurements: School Supplies

John Henry has been a character used in American stories, folk tales and folk songs for many, many years. Color him in!

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