Open%20Court%20Reading%20Vocabulary%20Unit%20Theme:%20Storytelling

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Open Court Reading VocabularyUnit Theme
Storytelling

• Oral History
• Presented by Linda Brady

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folklore

• Customs, beliefs, and stories handed down from
  generation to generation by a group of people

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recite

• To say aloud from memory

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ancient

• Very old belonging to the distant past

Aztec Sun Stone, an ancient calendar
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traditional

• Having to do with long-established customs,
  beliefs, or patterns of behavior that have been
  handed down from generation to generation

Traditional African instruments
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memorable

• Easily remembered sufficiently interesting,
  exciting, or unusual to be worth remembering

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inherited

• 1. receive something when somebody dies
• 2. receive characteristic or quality from parent