Diverse ways in which language is used can be depicted in folktales, including instructions, recipes, secrets, riddles, warnings, questions, and explanations. People learn new skills when they are interested in the topic or when it is useful to them. Finding folktales to tell can stimulate reading and research interest. Folktale collections can be found in the 398.2 section of library. Storytelling is a way to emphasize the uniqueness of each person's imagination.
Imagination can generate language.
Comprehension, or the ability to make sense of a story's plot, is facilitated by being able to mentally map the story's main events. Activities Simplify the plot of a folktale into a story skeleton and then, using personal imagination, flesh it out as a retelling. Use vocabulary that is based on visualization of the tale. As a preliminary step in learning a traditional folktale to retell, sequence the story as a map, a mural, an outline, a flow chart or any other form which summarizes the flow of events. Make sense of a tale by sequencing the tale as a time line.