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Cumulative Tales

Second Grade

By:

Amanda Loredo

Daniell Cruz

Maddy Christian

Shannon Goodenough

Tiffany Sargent

What are Cumulative Tales?

  • also known as "Add and Repeat Stores"
  • Types of folktales in which the actions and characters build and repeat; they also often include rhyming and rhythm.

How does it work?

  • a cumulative story follows a repetitive pattern or text structure: each page repeats the text from the previous page, adding a new line or plot element at the end. As the details pile up, the tale buids to a climax. Because of the repetition, these tales can be useful devices for helping children memorize important information (Carver, 2009).

Categories:

  • based on numbers, objects, animals or names
  • about death
  • about eating
  • and other events

Touchstone Book #1

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Sims Taback is about a crazy old lady who swallows a fly. After this she swallows a spider to catch the fly. She keeps swallowing bigger and bigger animals to catch the one that she previously swallows. She ends up swallowing a fly, a spider, a bird, a cat, a dog, a cow, and a horse until she finally dies.

Why Did We Choose This Book?

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Sims Taback is about a crazy old lady who swallows a fly. After this she swallows a spider to catch the fly. She keeps swallowing bigger and bigger animals to catch the one that she previously swallows. She ends up swallowing a fly, a spider, a bird, a cat, a dog, a cow, and a horse until she finally dies. The phrase that repeats in this book, "There was an old lady who swallowed a...". We chose this as a touchstone book because it includes both rhyming and rhythm. Also, as the old lady swallows more and more animals, the climax builds and surprises the reader with how many animals she is fitting in her stomach. The book also began as a song by Alan Mills and made its way to book form.

Touchstone Book #2

The Napping House by Audrey Wood is about a house where everyone in it is sleeping. It's a rainy afternoon and Granny is snoring on the bed. A child crawls on top of her. Gradually, the pile increases with a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse and finally a wakeful flea who, by biting the mouse, sets off a chain of events which results in a broken pile and even a broken bed. Now there is a house where no one is sleeping.

We chose this as a touchstone because it followed the “add and repeat” form that cumulative tales typically have. The characters build and repeat, which was stated in our definition of what cumulative tales are. The phrase that repeats is "There is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleeping."

Literature Circle Book #1

Level of Difficulty- Easy

A classic rhyme for children was first published in 1755 has been re- told in a creative and funny way. The rhyme starts off with the cheese that lay in the house, but was eaten by the rat. This continues to bring new characters into the story. The story first introduces the cheese then is greeted by a list of characters: Rat, cat, dog, cow, maiden, man, judge, rooster, and farmer. The story cleverly ends with a mystery character the readers need to figure out, which is the artist who drew the illustrations.

Why Did We Pick This Book?

This add and repeat story builds a cumulative plot and ends with "... That lay in the house that Jack built."

Literature Circle Book #2

Level of Difficulty- Medium

Pat starts off by making his fantastic pizza by stretching the floppy dough, adding the gooey and gloppy sauce, adding spicy and choppy sausages, and then topping it all off with white and sloppy cheese. Just as it comes out the oven to cool, a gang of mice steal the pizza for them selves to eat. Poor pat but happy mice.

Why did we pick this book?

This book is a cumulative tale because it conveys a structured story line building to the climax and ends each sentence with "...that lay in the tray that Pat bought."

Literature Circle Book #3

Level of difficulty- Hard

The Pot that Juan Built is very creative in the way it was written. This book is similar to the way This Is The House That Jack Built, but the story adds an addition story on the opposite page which gives readers some history about Juan’s life. The story starts with the ending of the making of the pot, and then page by page the readers’ finds out how the pot was made by each additional step.

Why Did We Choose This Book?

This story was picked because it demonstates an add and repeat plot, ending with "...The beautiful pot that Juan built." It shows characterisitics of a cumulative tale.

Independent Reading

Cumulative Tales by Joyce Bynum

What Joyce Bynum says that Cumulative Tales are?

“Of the many types of Folk Narrative, one of the more entertaining is the formula tale, a genre that includes cumulative, “catch,” endless and unfinished tales, all having a long chain of motifs introduced sequentially, sometimes requiring the repetition of earlier elements back to the beginning” (Bynum 173).

• “The style requires skill in memorization” (Bynum 173).

• “The death of an animal, particularly a hen or cock, is a common motif in traditional cumulative tales” (Bynum 173).

• “Cumulative tales are often used by adults as jokes and are told and received with enjoyment” (Bynum 175).

• “These cumulative tales and jokes, even in the midst of a crisis situation, provide comic relief, giving us a chance to catch our breath and relax; that they may have a “catch” at the end and are often quite pointless, resembling “shaggy dog” stories, is part of their appeal. Like other forms of oral lore, they also put resident, allowed him an acceptable method of expressing hostility toward the obstetrician who was trying to hurry him” (Bynum 176).

Thank you!

Why Did We Choose This Book?

We chose this as a touchstone because it followed the “add and repeat” form that cumulative tales typically have. This book could be used to teach rhyming in lower grade levels. The characters build and repeat, which was stated in our definition of what cumulative tales are.

Activity

Appendix

Professional Findings

Carver, R. (2009, March 6). Cumulative tales primary lesson plan. Retrieved from http://r-carver.suite101.com/cumulative-tales-primary-lesson-plan-a100778

We are going to divide you into

two groups. We are going to read

the book, There Was An Old Lady Who

Swallowed a Fly together as a class.

As one group reads one page, the

second group will read the next, going

back and forth. Ready, Set, Go!

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