Understanding Myths and Legends contains 27 stories from different countries around the World, ranging from Perseus and Medusa from Ancient Greece to an Indian legend on how the Peacock got his glorious feathers. These exciting stories are full of fearsome monsters, brave heroes and magical happenings, and will appeal to both girls and boys. Understanding Myths and Legends is a flexible resource that can be used to support topic work in history and RE or used as part of a unit of work in literacy. The stories and activities are ideal for use in guided reading sessions. To enable teachers to make the most of each story, they are accompanied by: background information to enable teachers to place the story confidently in context; differentiated reading tasks, using a variety of question styles, to help improve children's reading and comprehension skills; speaking and listening activities to deepen children's insight into the stories and encourage engagement; and cross-curricular follow-up ideas, enabling you to extend the story further. Myths and legends are not only excellent stories, they also help children to gain a true understanding of life in ancient times and improve their understanding of other people, cultures and places, making them an essential part of the primary curriculum.

 

This book is part of a book series called Myths And Legends From Around the World .

There are 140 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Brilliant Publications .

Karen Moncrieffe has been an educational author for over ten years. Her writing includes a mixture of fiction, non-fiction and teacher resource materials. Karen lives in Birmingham. She is a mum-of-one and works part-time as a teacher. Karen has written four titles for Badger Learning: Wasted from their YA Reads series, and Girl Next Door, Home and Breathe from their Two Sides series.