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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Big chair, small chair, long chair, tall chair! Ask your students to measure and record yard height of the different types of chairs.

How tall is this giraffe? Pick up a ruler and help your child measure Geoffry the Giraffe in inches. They'll even get a little intro to fractions.

Take a coloring page out of Gulliver's book and introduce your child to Jonathan Swift's tale of high adventure. The tales of Gulliver's Travels!

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths, and this coloring series features mythological creatures from all over the world.

This xiezhi coloring page is a great tool for kids learning about figures from folk tales from around the world. Try this xiezhi coloring page with your child.

This kitsune coloring page shows your kid the legendary fox-like creature from Japanese folklore. Use our kitsune coloring page when learning about folk tales.

Yee-haw! Color in Pecos Bill, the wildest, bravest buckaroo in the West!

This here's Paul Bunyan, the biggest lumberjack you ever did see.

Superheroes Tina Taller and Intellectra need your help! How can they save the day without any color!

Color in Captain Stormalong as he sets sail for adventure!