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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?
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
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.)