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Recommended for: Grades 1-4

Resource: The Stonecutter

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Length: 4m 53s
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This video segment from Weston Woods presents a Japanese folktale (a story that is part of a culture’s oral tradition). In the folktale, Tasaku, the stonecutter wished only to work all day and please the mountain spirit. One day, though, he meets a prince and is envious of him. Tasaku wishes for wealth. The mountain spirit hears him and changes Tasaku into a prince. This makes Tasaku happy but only for a little while until he becomes envious of the sun, then a cloud, then a mountain. In the end, Tasaku is a powerful mountain. Yet, deep inside, he trembles.

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Teachers' Domain, The Stonecutter, published October 7, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.genre.stonecutt/

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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary school students using this video in an English language arts lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) What is the main idea in a story? Why is it important to be able to figure out what a story’s main idea is?

Focus (ELA) Think about what the main idea is of this folktale about Tasaku the stonecutter.

Frame (ELA) What does it mean when we say that sometimes a story has a moral to it?

Focus (ELA) What do you think the moral of this folktale might be? What lesson was the author trying to teach us through Tasaku?

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Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details - The Stonecutter's Wish

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Funding for the VITAL/Ready to Teach collection was secured through the United States Department of Education under the Ready to Teach Program.