Philippine Folktales, FREE Worksheets

Are you looking for Philippine Folktales Worksheets Free? This 41-page FREE learning material is part of the Selected Philippine Folktales, Legends, Epics, Myths, and Fables. This is a printable material designed to supplement the learning of students in Grades 4 to 6, especially those using the Learn and Love the Philippines (LLP) Unit Study. Click here to access the full version of this workbook.

Learning our country’s literature will add to our children’s cultural knowledge. Philippine literature has been formed and enriched through time by different ethnic groups who landed on the islands now part of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and by the influence of nations from Europe and North America who eventually colonized many parts of these islands and its people. The beliefs, traditions, and practices of our culturally diverse land is seen in our folktales, legends, epics, myths, and fables. We are blessed because a lot of our Philippine folk literature are already documented in Filipino language and are available online. For non-Filipino speakers, the English versions of Philippine literature are also available through websites like Project Gutenberg and the Aswang Project.

You and you student will enjoy this Philippine Folktales Worksheets Free version. Because we promote homeschool learning from a Christian perspective, we did our best to select literature that fits our target age groups (Grades 4 to 6). We rewrote and rephrased portions of these texts to euphemize or soften what may still be difficult for young readers to read. But we made sure the outcome is faithful to the original form and content or the legend. We also used CRITICAL ANALYSIS to help students analyze and interpret folk literature and find similarities between beliefs and practices of early societies and modern-day ideas in the Philippines. We also added discussion questions and activities to help students reflect on issues touched in the literature and, possibly, jumpstart conversations about life, morality, and faith. May God bless your learning activities.