Read & Understand Folktales & Fables

By Jo Ellen Moore and Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

The stories contained in Read & Understand, Folktales & Fables, Grades 2-3 have been handed down through many generations, sometimes by word-of-mouth and other times in writing.

Peopled by talking animals, witches, giants, trolls, and other fantastic creatures, the appeal they hold for young readers makes them ideal focal points for learning and discussion.

This volume features 23 one to three-page stories, each followed by three to four pages of activities that build reading skills. These stories, borrowed from diverse cultures, vary in reading difficulty from first through beginning-third grade to meet a range of needs. Practice activities for every story include a comprehension page.

There are two or three pages for practice of skills such as word meaning and phonetic elements that include:

blends vowel sounds word families rhyming sequence of events adding ed, ing, er, characterization and personification

These exercises challenge students to:

recall details draw conclusions make inferences make comparisons consider word meanings This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557997500
• ISBN13: 9781557997500
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

Good series, but not for the beginning of the year

I really like the Evan-Moore products. They are a good skill-focused addition to our reading series. I teach a combined second-third grade classroom and I have found the reading level of most of these to be a little advanced for beginning of the year second grade, although my third graders do quite well with these. You may want to start with some first grade Evan-Moore Read and Understand products if your second graders tend to be on the low side like mine.