Understanding the genre of 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'

English

In 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby’, children developed their understanding of the features of a traditional tale and inferred meaning from the text. In ’The Sheep Pig’, children will develop their inference skills with a more complex narrative and story structure. They will discuss how the author creates an impression of different characters. 

In 'Mulan’, pupils read and listened to a traditional tale. They developed their understanding of the features of a traditional tale and discussed the theme of a hero. In ’Anansj and the Antelope Baby’, pupils will read a traditional folk tale and will develop their understanding of what a moral is.

'Anansi and the Antelope Baby': reading

What type of story is 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'?

a genre in which stories are written down the first time they are told

a genre in which stories are turned into rhymes

What do stories within the genre of folklore normally have in common?

Order the following to show the structure of a narrative story.

Before written stories, how were stories told?

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