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Teaching What stories should you be telling kids this holiday season?

What stories should you be telling kids this holiday season?

In every culture that anthropologists have ever studied, people tell stories.\n\nFamilies most frequently tell stories around the time of vacations, family reunions, (sadly) funerals, Thanksgiving and, of course, the family-oriented winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Marshall Duke, Professor of Psychology, Emory University
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

What can we learn from the stories that our families tell?
STANDARDS:
RI.2 - Main Ideas

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

1,3
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