Tall tales

Tall Tale Anchor Chart

A Tall Tales Project Your Students Will Never Forget. Wrap up your tall tales unit by having your students write their own tall tale and turning it into a TALL masterpiece.

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

Diverse books for kids. Picture books of American folktales and tall tales. Good variety.

Tall Tales-anchor-Here is our anchor chart about tall tales. Boy have these kiddos loved tall tales. We covered John Henry, Pecos Bill, and Paul Bunyan. We barrowed Baloney from another teacher but our class needs to have one for further reference.

Free lesson resources to build your own tall tales unit study. With links to graphic organizers, worksheets, and printable booklets.

Rough layout from forthcoming book (Fall 2013/Little,Brown) - "You Read to Me I'll Read to you, very short Tall Tales to read together", Text copyright - Mary Ann Hoberman

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.

Color Paul Bunyan with some bold colors to match his bold personality.

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!