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[Hilda Dixon]

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I am a special education teacher who teaches TK-2 grade students with intelligence disability. Therefore, I am looking for a website that I can use with my students. I found the Popular Korean Fairy Tales and Folktales page. This website page is taken from a teaching Korean language website named dinolingo which one must pay a subscription. However, this website page is free and has valuable information such as Korean Songs for Children, Korean Alphabet, top 30 Most Common Proverbs in Korean, Korean food facts and so forth. Knowing the names of the popular food dishes or titles of Korean songs for kids can ease the search for songs or food because once I know the words and can search on the internet when I am introducing the Korean culture to my students.

In this website page, there are some short Korean Short Stories titles such as,” Heungboo and Nolbu 흥부와 놀부,” Korean Short Story II: Small nose and huge mouth  코작은 할아버지와 입 큰 할머니Young and  Three years hill  삼년고개.”   I think it can enhance the stories if right before the story, teachers can point to South and North Korea on the map and let the children know that these over the years have passed down verbally from generation to generation in these area, and to mention that some decades ago the two Koreas were One united Korea.  Young children need to have many learning exposures to various narratives in order for them to learn that narratives have a distinctive structure. In fact, Common Core standards makes emphasis on the area of literacy and focus on the text structure. Narratives have a specific structure such as the fact that narratives have a beginning, middle and end. Narratives have characters and plot, too. Once children learn that narratives have these structure elements it is easier for them to comprehend, retell and discuss with their peers about the story. Then, it is easier for students to write about the story. What I appreciate about these Korean folktales is that all of these stories have an embedded life moral lesson where teachers can expand about it.  Teachers can expand a conversation on the attire too and ask students if American people wear these types of clothes regularly. As a final point, teachers can modify some of the sentence for instance, one of the stories says, “Suddenly the devils came out and started beating Nolbu.” I might substitute for a funny sentence” A grinch or a troll roared and said, Graar! who is there? “or  “a smelly Icky, Yucky, Mucky slime came out of the gourd seeds and went splash and plop all over Nolbu !”

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