Folklore Characteristics

Folktales...

• are fiction stories.

• are nonfiction stories.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Folktales...

• were mostly written by Aesop.

• were written by different authors.

• were passed down orally from generation to generation.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

In folktales...

• animals never act like people.

• only people act like people.

• animals act like people.

• there are no animals as characters.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Folktales are always serious and never funny.

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

We find out the setting and characters in a folktale at the ____ of the story.

• very beginning

• middle

• end

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Folktales have a problem and a solution.

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

The ___________ teaches the life lesson in a folktale.

• character

• plot

• problem

• solution

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Characters are...

• the people or animals the story is about.

• parts of a book that the table of contents tells about.

• what happens in the story.

• where and when the story happens.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Setting is...

• the people or animals the story is about.

• parts of a book that the table of contents tells about.

• what happens in the story.

• where and when the story happens.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

Which of these is a folktale?

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Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5