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Folk Tales and Fairytales Folk tales are the traditional beliefs, practices, lessons, legends and tales of a culture or of a people passed down orally through stories. "The 7 common characteristics of a Folk Tale are: * Folk Tales begin with Once upon a time, Long, long ago, etc. * Three characters, 3 tasks, and 3 events appear in Folk Tales. * Folk Tales have good and bad characters. * Everyday people and/or animals are the characters * The good characters in Folk Tales have a problem to solve. * Phrases are repeated in Folk Tales. For example: Mirror, mirror, on the wall. * Folk Tales have happy endings." Read a Folktale (Tops and Bottom by Stevens) Fairytales are fanciful and imaginary stories about people, fairies, animals or things who have magical powers. Similarity: Every story has a problem and complications before the problem is resolved. Difference: Folk tales require that people use their brains to solve their problems while fairy tales require that people have magic to help them. Three Billy Goats Gruff Fractured Fairy Tales (<--Click on me) Goldilocks and The Three Bears Audio Goldilocks and the Three Bears Goldilocks - revamped Goldilocks Fractured Red Riding Hood Video Fractured Red Riding Hood The Frog Prince The Frog Prince Revisited The Frog Prince Fractured Cinderella Cinderella Cinderella Video Cinderella Fractured Video Bubba and the Cowboy Prince The 3 Little Pigs Video The Three Little Pigs The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Fractured Three Little Pigs The Gingerbread Man The Gingerbread Man (Audio) The Gingerbread Man Revisited Jack in the Beanstalk video Jack in the Beanstalk Jack in the Beanstalk Fractured Hansel and Gretel Video Hansel and Gretel Fractured Video Rumplestiltskin Video Rumplestiltskin Fractured Video Little Red Riding Hood (Audio) Little Red Riding Hood Text Red Riding Hood Fractured Sleeping Beauty (Audio) Sleeping Beauty Fractured The Ugly Duckling (Audio) The Ugly Duckling Fractured Three Billy Goats Gruff Audio of Three Billy Goats Gruff Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Princess and the Pea Hare and the Tortoise Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty Video Puss and Boots The Lion and the Mouse	WHALES
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