Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 10A | All Stories Are Anansi’s 167

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Story Review

• Remind students that they heard the classic tale, “The Tale of Peter
  Rabbit.” Using their sequence of the story (Instructional Master 9B-1),
  have students retell the story with their partner or with home language
  peers.


• Remind students of the lesson Peter Rabbit should have learned.
  (Peter should have listened to his mother and not gone into Mr.
  McGregor’s garden. Peter should not have caused mischief.)

Introducing “All Stories Are Anansi’s”

• Tell students that today they will hear a folktale that was probably
  first told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, a country in the continent
  of Africa. [You may wish to have a student point to the continent of
  Africa. Then locate the country Ghana for students.]


• Ask students: “What does it mean to say that this is an African
  folktale?” (This means that this story is a story from Africa that was
  told long, long ago from person to person.)


• Tell students that many Ashanti tales begin with the same lines: [Have
  students repeat these lines with you.]
  “We do not really mean, We do not really mean
  that what we are going to say is true.”

Invite volunteers to share what they think these lines mean. Explain

that this means the stories are not really true; they are fiction.

Picture Walk

• Tell students that you will take a picture walk through this story
  together.
   Show image 10A-2: Nyame and Anansi


• Identify the characters in this picture: Nyame [nye-AH-mee]—the sky
  god—and Anansi—the spider.

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