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Click to enlargepad<strong><font size="18">Series 3: Wisdom Speaks:<br>Folktales from Around the World</font><font size="28"><br>Asian Tales</font></strong>



A class of California students discover some similarities and differences among Japanese Korean, and Chinese cultures through the traditional folktales included.

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  • Stellar Reading Exercises: reinforce California State Standards for third and fourth grades in CAT/6-style reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, and includes open-ended discussion questions.
  • Star Power Writing Assignments: develop fictional and personal narrative, descriptive, and letter writing in order to master third and fourth grade California Writing Standards.
  • Cross-curricular Links:Social Studies, Math, and Science
  • Activities: Abacus calculations, bookmaking, and Magic Square
  • Additional reading selections list
  • Fun and informative website links
Asian Tale introduces a rich collection of Asian history, fables and poetry. It also explores the customs and culture of Japan, Korea and China. The curriculum contains colorful stories like

Japan's "The Little Peach Boy", the Korean tale, "The Old Tiger and the

Hare" as well as China's classic, "Shu Ling and the Jade Emperor". It also

offers educational information on Asian traditions such as, the life of the Samurai, the Korean New Year and the Chinese Zodiac.




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Asian Tales Teacher's EditionpadThe Teacher's Edition follows the same format as the student packet, but has a Teacher's Guide in the front and an answer key in the back, as well as an index of the California State Standards covered by each activity in the packet.
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