Other+cultures

Y5 Literacy

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__Africa or tales taken to America__
Here are some links for texts about other cultures Anansi and the pot of beans movie http://www.storycove.com/anansi_and_the_pot_of_beans/movie and the same story in a cartoon and text http://www.afro.com/children/myths/turtle/page1.html and you will find the same story again here if you search http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/stories.html http://www.gateway-africa.com/stories/ http://www.anansistories.com/index.html

= = = = =__Indian folk tales__=

http://www.cgnet.in/Cult/folktales/ the story of Ganesh as a film clip http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8431967403349408559&hl=en link for children to punctuate speech online. http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/speech_marks/index.htm

American native indian stories http://www.nwrel.org/indianed/indianreading/lessonplans/coyote.php =Some files to help teaching sentence structure= I will ask the children to improve the sentences on these files as an early morning activity.