Tall Tales Unit with Tall Tales Writing Reading Passages Graphic Organizers

This robust Tall Tales resource pack includes everything you need to captivate your students attention and interest as you teach the Tall Tales genre.  Included you will find more than 300 pages of meticulously designed reading passages, activities, assessments, graphic organizers, posters, lesson plans, rubrics, student handouts, and so much more.  Teaching the tall tale genre and how to write tall tales has never been more fun.  Your students will BEG FOR MORE!

INCLUDED YOU WILL RECEIVE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING

Tall Tales Writing Unit

• Tall Tales Writing Lesson Plan
• Tall Tales Writing Rubric
• Tall Tales KWL Organizer
• 4 Tall Tales Poster in Color and Black and White
• All About Tall Tales Reading Passage
• Reading Passage Assessment (short answer and multiple choice format)
• Tall Tale Writing Menu of Ideas
• Creating The Characters Brainstorming Organizer
• Create a Character Activity
• Tall Tale Brainstorm
• Tall Tale Exaggerations
• Sequence of Events
• Creating the Setting
• Story Elements
• Tall Tale Writing a Step-by-Step Guide Reading Passage
• Tall Tale Summaries (Beginning, Middle, and End)
• Problem and Solution Organizer
• Main Idea Organizer
• Making Connections with Tall Tales
• Comparing Tall Tales with Venn Diagrams
• Picture Perfect Activity
• Expanding Your Vocabulary
• Star of the Tale
• My Tall Tale Final Draft Writing Paper
• My Tall Tale Comic

In addition to the tall tale writing activities, you will also receive 10 mini-units on ten different popular characters from tall-tales.   Each of these mini-units will come with a lesson plan, reading passage, and a wealth of activities for you to choose from.  Each of the activities have been designed to help your students not only learn about a particular character from a tall tale, but to also help spark their imagination so that they can identify tall tales when they encounter them and write their own tall tales.

Tall Tale Character Mini Units Included

1. Casey Jones 
2. Davy Crockett
3. John Henry 
4. Johnny Appleseed 
5. Mike Fink 
6. Molly Brown 
7. Paul Bunyan 
8. Pecos Bill 
9. Slue Foot Sue 
10. Zorro 

Each Mini Unit Includes the Following

• Teacher Lesson Plan
• Tall Tales Writing Rubric
• KWL Organizer
• Reading Passage About Tall Tale Character
• Assessment for Reading Passage (2 Formats)
• Character Color Notes Page
• Vocabulary Expansion
• Main Idea
• Character Web
• Problem and Solution
• Star of the Tale
• Making Connections
• BME
• Tall Tale Exaggerations
• Tall Tale Comic
• Summarization Page
• Picture Perfect
• Comparing Tall Tales
• 5 Writing Prompts

FORMATS INCLUDED

• Printable PDF
• Google Slides for Digital Learners

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