Folktales: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

One of the stories we read during our folktale unit was Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, a West African tale by Verna Aardema. Students retold the story by creating story sequence strips. After coloring and cutting out patterns of the animal characters in the story, students glued them in sequential order on to sentence strips. Underneath each illustration, students wrote a sentence explaining what the animal was doing.

 

                       details from a story sequence strip

I'm selling this project, along with a two page reading comprehension questionnaire and answer key, and a writing activity in my Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Unit in my TPT store.

 The link is:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Why-Mosquitoes-Buzz-in-Peoples-Ears-Unit-995614