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Saturday, December 12, 2015

African storybook website #2: Translated African folktales

Every couple of months SAIDE who administers the African Storybook project sends out an update. This is a recent update.  This is a crosspost of the post I wrote about the update on the SchoolNet blog. This project is worthy of being known by teachers everywhere.

The African Storybook Project is a wonderful Literacy website with a wide range of stories from Grades 1-3 learners in a multitude of African languages. Visit www.africanstorybook.org to see the amazing spread. The stories and folktales have beautiful illustrations, can be read online or they can be downloaded as PDFs and made into hand-held books. Best is that the African Storybook Project is OER and uses Creative Commons licensing which enables the books to be adapted if so desired.
In their latest newsflash the African Storybook Project highlights some of their most translated folktales. Folktales are one of the oldest genres of stories, and they usually have an important life lesson to teach us.

http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/Girl%20who%20got%20rich.jpg Girl who got rich
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/why%20hippos.jpg Why hippos have no hair
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/anansi-turtle-10.jpg Anansi and Turtle
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/king-birdsillustrationp-03.jpg King of the birds
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/gourd-3-jpeg.jpg Khayanga and her gourd
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/hownightcametoopiosvillage-p-01.jpg How night came to Opio's village
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/nonkungu-and-imbulup03.jpg Nonkungu and the imbulu
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/Demane.jpg Demane and Demazane
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/mulongo-and-hyenasp-07.jpg Mulongo and the hyenas
http://www.saide.org.za/resources/newsletters/ASP/20151118NF/Images/childrenofwaxillustrationp-05.png Children of wax

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