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Stories That Teach

Reading multiple folktales (The Ant and the


Dove, The Fox and the Stork, The Wind and
the Sun, Anansi Learns a Lesson, The
Quarreling Quails, and A Lesson for the
Foolish Crow)
Summary:
Students will be introduced to storytelling around the world and be able to
identify the moral or lesson in a story (folktale or fable). Students will read and
engage in summarizing and explaining the moral/lesson of each story stated
above over the course of 4-5 days,

Time Frame:
4-5 days of ELA Block (2 hours daily)

Skills:
Students will engage in using interactive tools to read multiple folktales and
fable. Students will be able to answer the questions of why storytelling is
important and why do people from diverse cultures throughout the world tell
stories?

Materials: Folktales (digital resource page, or hard copies), post-it notes to


discuss questions, fable/folktale graphic organizer, and response logs to talk
about the moral/lesson of the story.

Background for Teachers:


Teachers need to be aware of multiple text, morals, and cultural connections
within the units.

Student Prior Knowledge:


Students must have:
Differentiated task to go along with reading progression or reading level.
Students must come with a base knowledge on what a moral/lesson means. How
to interoperate key details in a text.
Intended Learning Outcomes

Objectives:
Students will participate in collaborative discussions to explain how key details
determine the moral or lesson of the story.

Students will analyze how parts of a whole text interact with each other in order
to produce over all outcomes.

Students will explain how the morals in fables are conveyed through key details
in a text.

Instructional Procedures

1. Display and break down student learning goals or objectives.

2. Introduce second fable by Aesop, - “The Fox and the Stork.” Allow students
to read the fable with partners, independently, or in small groups.
3. Display and project - Graphic Organizer for Fables. Complete with students
during class discussion and close reading.
 How do the words and actions of the characters form the key events
of this fable? Make sure when asking questions there is a
collaborative discussion on each piece while working as a group.
 Describe the characters, the Fox and the Stork? (Fox is
mean and unkind, while Stork is friendly, calm, and
wise.)
 What do you notice about the two characters? (They are
opposites.)
 What are the key details of the events in this fable? (Fox
invites Stork for dinner, but serves soup in a shallow dish
so that the Stork cannot eat it. Stork does not lose
temper. Stork invites Fox for dinner, but serves delicious-
smelling fish in a jar with a narrow opening, so that the
Fox cannot eat it. Fox loses his temper. Stork calmly says,
“Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can
stand the same treatment yourself.” This is the moral of
the fable.)

4. Have students explain how key details convey the moral.

 How did the two characters respond to each other in different


ways?(The Stork remained calm and even-tempered, while the Fox lost
his temper. The Stork set up a similar situation, not for the sake of
tricking the Fox or being mean, but to teach him a lesson.)
 Note that explaining these two key details shows how the moral is
conveyed.

5. Summarize the learning, and explain expectations for Independent and


Applied Learning.

6. During small group instruction introduce “Anansi Learns a Lesson” students


will engage in same questioning and prompts from whole group lesson in order
to identify, explain, and summarize the moral or lesson within a folktale.

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