Fables Teaching Theme Passages Characters Plot Retelling Activities 3.2 4.2 #6

Teaching themes in literature using fables is one of the easiest approaches to helping students determine the messages in literature. MUST SEE PREVIEW.

This resource is thoroughly and carefully planned out with guiding questions essential to students' success in determining theme (moral). Everything you need to engage your students in a close read is at your fingertips: from character and plot analysis, determining the message (moral), to using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.

Detailed lesson plans (with formative assessments), teacher's notes, and answer keys are included to guide instruction.

Just print and teach or assign in Google Classroom and go!

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Through the activities in this flipbook, students will:

✔ read grade-level appropriate texts

✔ describe characters' traits, feelings, actions, or motives, and how they influence they events or outcome of the fable

✔ explain how the character's traits play an important role in the moral of the fable

✔ retell the fable using the most important details in the fable

✔ determine the moral of the fable and how it applies the reader

✔ find and use evidence from the text to support thinking

✔ determine the meaning of words using context clues

The double-sided flipbook and digital flipbook includes:

► an introduction to fables and who Aesop was

► the fable passage: The Crow & the Pitcher

► an introduction to typical characters found in fables (includes a list of character traits organized to display opposite traits- positive traits vs. negative traits)

► graphic organizers and questions for analyzing/evaluating character traits, motives, actions

► an introduction to the plot of a story

► graphic organizers and questions for analyzing/evaluating the plot of the fable

► an introduction to the moral of a fable

► questioning that guides students in determining the moral of The Crow & the Pitcher

► a text-to-self reading response activity that has students make connections between the moral and how it might apply to students’ own lives

► a vocabulary activity that promotes the use of context clues to figure out unknown words

Note: because there is only one character in this fable, it does not include a readers' theater script.

☕ Teacher’s notes, lesson plans, and detailed answer keys are provided to assist with optimizing a close read of the text and to guide meaningful discussions.

For more Fable Flip Books in this series, click on the links below:

Teaching Theme with Fables: Tortoise and Hare

Teaching Theme with Fables: Ant and Grasshopper

Teaching Theme with Fables: Lion and Mouse

Teaching Theme with Fables: Fox and Crow

Or check out my Fairy Tale Flip Book Series: The Ultimate Fairy Tale Resource Bundle

To see resources for teaching common core reading standards, please click on the links below and check out the following toolkits that can be used with any story:

Teaching Themes in Literature Toolkit

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