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Reading Fables and Folktales Learning Resources

Learning how to sound out words is only the beginning of a lifelong reading adventure. Encourage your students to dive into the world of complete sentences, paragraphs, and stories. They can practice their reading skills with these resources that come complete with familiar stories, colorful graphics, and comprehension questions. When your students have mastered comprehensive reading, allow them to practice writing their own stories with our writing process resources.

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Reading Fables and Folktales

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Grammar Practice

This workbook gives second graders practice in punctuation, and helps to develop their vocabulary with contractions and compound words.

Folktales: The Princess Mouse

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Prediction and Comprehension

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories

The reading and writing practice in this workbook will get kids thinking about all the different parts that go into a good story, like vocabulary, structure and sequencing.

Johnny Appleseed Story

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.

The Tortoise and the Hare Fable

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

How the Camel Got His Hump

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

John Henry 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.

Punctuation: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Punctuation Practice Makes Perfect

Your budding writer will get his fill of periods, commas and quotation marks in this essential workbook, filled with opportunities to practice proper punctuation placement.

Compare Ghost Stories

In this reading worksheet, students can compare two ghost stories from other sides of the globe and see the ways in which they're eerily similar.

Be a Text Detective

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

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

Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Loki Myths: Loki and the Builder

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

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.

What is a Tall Tale?

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

Momotaro: A Japanese Folktale

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Norse Mythology: Thor in the Land of the Giants

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

American Tall Tales

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.

Leprechaun Crossword

Enjoy a leprechaun crossword puzzle, to use and learn fun vocabulary!

The Raven Steals the Light

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

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