Focus on Pourquoi Tales

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Focus on Pourquoi Tales

• Background and Vocabulary

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Comprehension Strategy- Question
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Comprehension Skills- Pourquoi Tales

• Explain why or how something in nature came to be
• They can be about animal traits or peoples
  customs
• Feature or natural forces that have personalities
  and can speak
• Often take place in the distant past
• Sound as if they are being told aloud

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Comprehension Skill-Pourqoui Tales

• Pourquoi tales are old legends told to explain
  why certain events happened.
• These tales often start in the past, e.g. A
  long, long time ago . . . and end when the
  explanation is complete.
• Pourquoi tales are most often concerned with
  animals and the natural world.

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Teacher Read Aloud
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Tikki Tikki Tembo

• Click here watch Tikki Tikki Tembo
• Complete the quiz after the lesson

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Vocabulary

• customs- things that members of a group usually
  do
• folktales- stories that were first told by the
  common people of a region and passed down from
  one generation to the next
• personality- a set of qualities, other than
  appearance, belonging to a person

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Vocabulary

• traditional relating to ideas and practices
  passed down from one generation to the next
• traits- distinctive features or qualities