Native American Animal Stories
Age 8-10: Concept 1 - Interdependence: Unit 3

Read traditional myths, legends, and folktales from a variety of Native American tribes. For the final project, students will write their own myth that explains a natural occurrence.
This unit can be used independently but is designed to be taught in conjunction with the science and social studies unit Ecosystems and Ecology.
This unit can be used independently but is designed to be taught in conjunction with the science and social studies unit Ecosystems and Ecology.
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Prerequisites
- Able to read and comprehend chapter books at a 4th or 5th grade reading level
- Able to write an organized paragraph
- Usually used by children in fourth grade
Table of Contents
- Lesson 1: Myths, Legends, and Folktales
- Lesson 2: People and Animal Stories (2 Days)
- Lesson 3: The Natural World (2 Days)
- Lesson 4: Survival Stories
- Lesson 5: Legends from Other Cultures (2 Days)
- Final Project: My Own Myth (2 Days)
Summary of Skills
Moving Beyond the Page is based on state and national standards. These standards are covered in this unit.
- Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate. (Language Arts)
- Compare experiences of characters across cultures. (Language Arts)
- Compare language and oral traditions (stories) that reflect customs, regions, and cultures. (Language Arts)
- Compose sentences with interesting, elaborate subjects. (Language Arts)
- Demonstrate understanding by using a variety of complete sentences. (Language Arts)
- Develop drafts. (Language Arts)
- Edit writing for standard grammar and usage, including subject-verb agreement. (Language Arts)
- Generate ideas for writing by using pre-writing techniques such as drawing and making lists. (Language Arts)
- Identify similarities and differences across texts in topics, characters, and themes. (Language Arts)
- Identify the conflict and resolution of a story. (Language Arts)
- Identify the importance of the setting to a story's meaning (Language Arts)
- Increase knowledge of other cultures by reading stories from around the world. (Language Arts)
- Locate information from text for specific purposes. (Language Arts)
- Make inferences and draw conclusions based on events in the story. (Language Arts)
- Participate in creative interpretations of stories. (Language Arts)
- Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays. (Language Arts)
- Recognize the distinguishing features of familiar genres, including myths and folktales. (Language Arts)
- Recognize the problem or plot of a story. (Language Arts)
- Record and recognize synonyms and antonyms for words. (Language Arts)
- Reflect on learning, gain new insights from text, and identify areas for further study. (Language Arts)
- Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive and evaluative processes. (Language Arts)
- Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying. (Language Arts)
- Understand literary forms by distinguishing among stories, poems, myths, legends, and folktales. (Language Arts)
- Use capitalization with proper nouns and punctuation, such as commas, in a series. (Language Arts)
- Use correct subject/verb agreement. (Language Arts)
- Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why). (Language Arts)
- Use singular and plural forms of regular nouns and adjust verbs for agreement. (Language Arts)
- Use written language to report information on a topic. (Language Arts)
- Write in different forms for different purposes. (Language Arts)
- Analyze similarities and differences among families in different times and in different places. (Social Studies)
- Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places. (Social Studies)