Teaching tall tales

Our southwest region unit study was full of hands-on fun including dissecting a cactus, writing a tall tale, and making a tornado!

Are you ready to introduce your students to tall tales? Here are five fun ideas for teaching tall tales in your library or classroom.

Free printable lesson materials for teaching about tall tales. Free printable mini books for Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and others.

Here are some fun resources I found for teaching Tall Tales:Tall Tales Notebooking Pages from The Notebooking Nook - make your very own Tall Tales Notebook!

Teaching Tall Tales - lesson plan ideas and a printable template for this literally TALL tale from Layers of Learning

One of my favorite ways to wrap up a tall tales genre unit is having students write their own tall tale and publishing their stories as TALL creations. Come grab a free Google Docs template for students to type their stories.

Why should you read tall tales with students? Here are five benefits for teaching tall tales and some ideas for sharing them with students.

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

Reading teachers cover a wide variety of genres: realistic fiction, folktales, fairy tales, mysteries, historical fiction, etc. One genre, tall tales, may be considered by most a genre only for lower grades, but there are many wonderful reasons to use tall tales in upper grades as well! Using tall tales to teach reading in upper grades can be fun and beneficial for our students. My Favorite Tall Tale Books There are many wonderful tall tale picture books that are perfect for upper grades…

Tall Tales Anchor Chart