Grade 2 Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales and Tall Tales: Supplemental Guide 8A | Casey Jones 169

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Ta l l Ta l e R ev i e w

• Present the Tall Tales Characteristics Chart (Instructional Master
  5A- 1). Ask students about the characteristics of tall tales. Make sure
  that the following characteristics are mentioned:
  
  
  • Frontier Setting
  
  
  • Amazing Childhood
  
  
  • Amazing Adventures
  
  
  • Creations/Inventions
  
  
  • Humor
  
  
  • Exaggerations/Larger-Than-Life
  
  
  
  


• Using the Tall Tales Characteristics Chart, review what students have
  already learned about tall tales, specifically the tall tale “John Henry.”


• Ask students how John Henry is different from Paul Bunyan and
  Pecos Bill. (He was a real person. He had a different job.)

Introducing “Casey Jones”

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• Tell students that the main character in today’s tall tale is named
  Casey Jones.


• Say to students: “Tell your partner what you think Casey Jones does
  for a living.” Allow fifteen seconds for students to talk. Call on two
  students to share.


• Share with students that today’s tall tale is also about a real person—
  John Luther Jones. He was from Cayce [pronounced like the name
  Casey], Kentucky.
  [Point to Kentucky on a map.]
  That is how he got the nickname “Casey” Jones.

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