Understanding Traditional Stories is a photocopiable teacher resource book containing a range of fairy tales, fables and folktales from around the world. It will help teachers to address the requirements of the September 2014 National Curriculum whereby Key Stage 1 pupils are required to become 'very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics.' The traditional tales are accompanied photocopiable activities, focusing on developing comprehension and reading skills. These activities will help prepare pupils for their Year 2 tests in which they are required to demonstrate that they not only have the ability to decode words and retrieve information, but also that they are able to use skills such as inference, deduction and state their opinion of a text. Many of the suggested follow up activities link to PSHE and to other areas of the curriculum such as science. The speaking and listening activities for each story support the expectations of the new curriculum, which places a heavy emphasis on Key Stage 1 children being encouraged to develop these skills.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

This book was published 2015 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.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; How to Use this Book; FABLES: The Wind and the Sun (Greece); The Ant and the Grasshopper (Greece); Hare and the Tortoise (Greece); The Miller, his Son and the Donkey (Greece); The Tale of Two Fishes and a Frog (India); The Flying Turtle (India); The Singing Donkey (India); FOLK STORIES: Abu Ali Counts his Donkeys (Middle East); Rabbit Catches the Sun (America); The Giant Turnip (Russia); The Greedy Lion (Africa); Tortoise and Baboon (Africa); The Fox and the Tiger (China); The Lion and the Jackal (Africa); The Fox and the Bagpipes (Scotland); Why the Emu has Short Wings (Australia); The Lizard and the Sun (Mexico); FAIRY TALES: The Elves and the Shoemaker (Germany); The Gingerbread Man (America); The Magic Porridge Pot (Germany); The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Norway); The Ugly Duckling (Denmark); Cinderella (France); Goldilocks and the Three Bears (England); The Three Little Pigs (England)