Folk tales, etc.

[Debra Marie Balsam <dbalsam@PEN.K12.VA.US>]

folktales "all forms of narrative, written or oral, which have
come to be handed down through the years." includes epics,
ballads, legends, folk songs, myths and fables,
legends a long narrative or cycle stories clusttering around the
actions of a single hero,
fables are brief didactic tales in which animals speak as human
beings; represent. different aspects of human nature and are
primary to instruct, so include a moral.

All from Children's Literature in the Elementary School 5th ed.
by Huck, Hepler and Hickman

fairytales:  From my readings and storytelling classes the term
fairy tales is an alternative term for the folktales that have
fairies in them
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Debra Balsam
Taylor Elementary
Arlington, VA
703-358-6275
dbalsam@pen.k12.va.us