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3rd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 15 of 15

Tales, Poems & Hyperbole

Fables, folktales, legends, myths, rhyme schemes and hyperbole.

What your child practices

Your child tells fables, folktales, legends and myths apart, reads rhyme schemes and stanzas, and spots sound devices and hyperbole.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.9(A); 3.9(B); 3.9(C); 3.10(G) · folktales, fables, legends, myths, poems, plays and hyperbole

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A fable teaches a lesson. A legend tells of a hero’s great deeds. A myth explains how something in nature came to be.
  2. A rhyme scheme uses letters for lines that rhyme: AABB means lines 1 and 2 rhyme, then 3 and 4.
  3. Hyperbole is a huge exaggeration. Onomatopoeia is a sound word like buzz.

Example: “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.” What is this? Nobody could really eat a horse. A big exaggeration is hyperbole. Answer: hyperbole

Tales, Poems & Hyperbole in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 15 of 15 in 3rd grade English Language Arts, after Media Messages.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What makes a poem look different from a story?

    • it is written in lines and stanzas
    • it has no words
    • it always tells facts
    • it has chapters

  2. Question 2

    Which is most likely the moral of a fable?

    • The fox lived in a den.
    • It rained on Tuesday.
    • Slow and steady wins the race.
    • The end.

  3. Question 3

    Which kind of story explains something in nature, often with gods or heroes?

    • a recipe
    • a fable
    • a myth
    • a biography

  4. Question 4

    Which is a simile?

    • the mouse ran
    • a quiet mouse
    • mice are small
    • as quiet as a mouse

  5. Question 5

    Why did the ancient Greeks tell the myth of Persephone?

    • to describe a city
    • to teach adding
    • to explain the seasons
    • to sell food

  6. Question 6

    A tale explains “why the bear has a short tail.” What kind of tale is it most likely?

    • a news report
    • a science article
    • a folktale about how something began
    • a biography

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