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Second Grade
By:
Amanda Loredo
Daniell Cruz
Maddy Christian
Shannon Goodenough
Tiffany Sargent
What are Cumulative Tales?
How does it work?
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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."
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."
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."
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.
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).
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.
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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Bynum, J. (1943). Cumulative tales. ET Cetera, 1(1), 173-176.
Andrew-Goebel, Nancy. (2002). The pot that Juan built. New York, NY: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Burningham, John. (1970). Mr. gump'ys outing. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Carle, Eric. (1993). Today is monday. New York, NY: Philomel Books.
Cooner, Donna, D. (1996). I know an old texan who swallowed a fly. Dallas, Tx: Hendrick-Long Publishing Company.
Downey, Lynn. (2000). The flea's sneeze. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
Fox, Mem. (1989). Shoes from grandpa. New York, NY: Orchard Books.
Golden-Gelman, Rita. (1999). Pizza pat. New York, NY: Random House.
Hutchins, Pat. (2003). There's only one of me. Greenwillow Books.
Long, Melinda. (2000). When papa snores. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Parry-Heide, Florence. , & Van-Clief, Sylvia, (2003). That's what friends are for. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press.
Polushkin-Robbins, Maria. (1978). Mother, mother, i want another. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Taback, Simms. (1997). There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. New York, NY: Viking.
Taback, Simms. (2002). This is the house that jack built. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Wood, Audrey. (1984). The napping house. San Diego, Ca: Red Wagon Books.
Wood, Audrey. (1992). Silly sally. San Diego, Ca: Harcourt, Inc.