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        CELEBRATE WORLD FOLKTALES AND FABLES WEEK: FIVE FUN ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSROOM

        March 13, 2023
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        Next week marks the return of World Folktales and Fables Week! These fun and interactive activities will encourage students to learn more about folktales, fables, and other traditional stories from around the world........... CONTINUE READING
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        WORLD FOLKTALES AND FABLES: NEW MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES

        March 13, 2022
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        World Folktales and Fables Week 2022: Language Lizard's new World of Stories series include multicultural retellings of The Three Little Pigs........... CONTINUE READING
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        WOMEN IN WORLD FOLKTALES & FABLES

        March 22, 2021
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        To celebrate World Folktales & Fables Week, Language Lizard highlights three books that celebrate clever women around the world!.......... CONTINUE READING
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        USING FOLKTALES & FABLES TO BUILD LITERACY SKILLS (FREE LESSON PLAN)

        March 7, 2020
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        As always, World Folktales and Fables Week arrives the third week of March. What a great opportunity to work on literacy skills with these classic stories! Folktales and fables have near-universal appeal, thanks to their simple story lines, talking animals, and magical scenarios. Here, we offer some ideas for students to improve their reading and writing skills with the use of folktales and fables........... CONTINUE READING
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        8 GREAT FOLKTALES FOR KIDS – FAVORITE FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

        March 13, 2018
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          World Folktales and Fables Week is celebrated the third week of each March. (This year it’s March 18-24.) Be sure to enjoy a good folktale at home and in your classroom! Use #WorldFolktales on social media, and tell us about your favorite folktales and fables. World Folktales & Fables: Important Teaching Tools Every culture has its own way of teaching lessons and sharing how different things came to be. Many do this through the telling of fables or folktales. Here, we look at eight............. CONTINUE READING
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        TOP AFRICAN FOLKTALES FOR KIDS AVAILABLE IN SPANISH, ARABIC AND MORE!

        November 12, 2017
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        Language Lizard is excited to announce that one of our favorite world folktales – Mamy Wata and the Monster – is now available in English with Arabic, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish. An English only version is also available. This beautifully illustrated book is on the list of the 100 Best African Books of the Century.  It is also part of Language Lizard’s collection of Folktales from Around the World. It tells the story............. CONTINUE READING
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        CELEBRATE “WORLD FOLK TALES & FABLES WEEK” IN THE CLASSROOM AND AT HOME

        March 3, 2015
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        This year, World Folk Tales and Fables Week is from March 16 through March 22. It’s a week dedicated to encouraging children and adults to explore the lessons and cultural background of folk tales, fables, myths and legends from around the world. Reading folk tales is a great way for children to explore different cultures and enhance literacy skills. Learn more about why kids love folk tales and fables in a previous blog post that discusses why folk............. CONTINUE READING
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        INTERNATIONAL FOLKTALE CHARACTER: CURUPIRA

        September 10, 2014
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        What’s that awful squeaking noise? Oh, you can hear that too? It’s just Curupira. Annoying, right? And what, may I ask, is a Curupira?  Not a what – a who. His name means “child’s body” or “covered in blisters”, depending on which Tupi-speaker you ask. Back up. Tupi? Yeah, it’s a family of languages spoken by American Indians in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Sorry for interrupting. Continue. He’s a Brazilian tree spirit who looks like a small man or dwarf and defends the............. CONTINUE READING
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        INTERNATIONAL FOLKTALE CHARACTER: FINN MCCOOL

        July 8, 2014
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        photo credit: Mattman4698, Brendan Cullen, both @ flickr.com Name: Finn McCool (or Fionn mac Cumhaill) Age: Roughly 1,414 years – but a good mythological cycle never reveals its real age. Appearance: Handsome, with very light colouring. Also a giant? Maybe. Definitely a big, powerful guy with a big, powerful beard. Oooh, I do love a guy with a beard! Is he in some kind of ancient alt-folk band? Does he wear plaid shirts and listen to Mumford and Sons? You’ve got it all wrong. Finn............. CONTINUE READING
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