Tangram Tales
eBook - PDF

Tangram Tales

Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Tangram Tales

Story Theater Using the Ancient Chinese Puzzle

About this book

Targeted for elementary teachers, drama teachers, and teaching artists, Tangram Tales contains adapted tales from around the world appropriate for grades 2 through 6. Teachers can tell the stories in the classroom as part of a math unit, or have the students use the scripts provided here to perform the stories using tangrams. In the author's tangram story theater process, students are given roles as storytellers, tangram artists, and chorus members to create grade-level story presentations. Other tangram methods, such as individual student tangram tales and student-created tangram tales, are shared as well. The ways in which tangram tales connect language arts and math is demonstrated. The book includes simple black-and-white spot illustrations for each story, showing the tangram figures that depict the story. A reproducible tangram pattern is provided.
Grades 2-6

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Meeting Benchmarks with Tangram Tales
  4. History of Tangrams
  5. The Tangram Tales Story Theater Process
  6. Introducing Tangram Tales Story Theater to Your Students
  7. Group Tangram Tales
  8. Student-Created Tangram Tales
  9. Connecting with the Curriculum
  10. Culminating Event—The Tangram Tales Story Fest (Performance-Based Assessment)
  11. Reproducible Tangram Patterns
  12. Reproducible Tangram Figures
  13. How to Cut a Tangram without a Pattern
  14. The Bossy Rooster—Cuba
  15. The Cat and the Rooster—Ukraine
  16. The Goat in the Jalapeño Patch—Mexico
  17. Grandfather Rabbit and the Foolish Fox—Native American
  18. Grandmother Spider—Native American
  19. The Greedy Frog—Australia
  20. Henny Penny—England
  21. The Hodja’s Bet—Turkey
  22. The House That Jack Built—Mother Goose
  23. The Fox’s Daughter—China
  24. It Could Always Be Worse!—Yiddish
  25. Jack Seeks His Fortune—Ireland
  26. La Cucarachita Martina—Cuba
  27. The Mitten—Ukraine
  28. The Old Woman and Her Pig—England
  29. Rabbit’s Turnip—China
  30. Silly Ivan’s Salt—Russia
  31. The Stonecutter—Japan
  32. The Three Billy Goats Gruff—Norway
  33. The Tiger and the Rabbit—Korea
  34. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal—India
  35. Tiger’s Tale, Anansi’s Stories—West Indies
  36. Too Much Nose—Italy
  37. The Traveling Fox—England
  38. Windbird and the Sun—South Africa
  39. Source Notes
  40. Resources