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Focus on Pourquoi Tales. Background and Vocabulary. Comprehension Strategy- Question. Comprehension Skills- Pourquoi Tales…. Explain why or how something in nature came to be They can be about animal traits or people’s customs Feature or natural forces that have personalities and can speak
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Focus on Pourquoi Tales Background and Vocabulary
Comprehension Skills- Pourquoi Tales… • Explain why or how something in nature came to be • They can be about animal traits or people’s customs • Feature or natural forces that have personalities and can speak • Often take place in the distant past • Sound as if they are being told aloud
Comprehension Skill-Pourqoui Tales • Pourquoi tales are old legends told to explain why certain events happened. • These tales often start in the past, e.g. A long, long time ago . . . and end when the explanation is complete. • Pourquoi tales are most often concerned with animals and the natural world.
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Vocabulary • customs- things that members of a group usually do • folktales- stories that were first told by the common people of a region and passed down from one generation to the next • personality- a set of qualities, other than appearance, belonging to a person
Vocabulary • traditional – relating to ideas and practices passed down from one generation to the next • traits- distinctive features or qualities