Education.com
Education.com: Finding the Moral
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be able to recount fables and folktales and determine the moral or lesson, explaining how it is conveyed through key details or ideas in the text. Printable resources...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan on Storytelling or Fables for First Grade Children
This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, lesson learned (moral), and follow up ideas.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Fables
Students will learn the characteristics of fables by separating them from myths and legends, as well as view and read fables from Aesop within this SMART whiteboard lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson plan, students will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Lafs.2.sl.2.5
Choose from a variety of courses, lesson plans, and resources aligned to the Common Core standard of creating audio recordings of stories or poems.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Fairytale Homes
Students will have a chance to show their understanding of their favorite fairy tales by building homes for the characters.
Education.com
Education.com: Draw the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know Characters
In this language development instructional activity using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Move Over: A Sequencing Lesson
During this lesson students will learn about the sequencing of stories. Students will have the opportunity to retell stories using sequencing words they learn. They will also navigate an Internet site to reinforce the skills they learn...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
The students will thoughtfully listen to a story read aloud and comprehend the sequence of events. This lesson will culminate units completed in science and math and will incorporate literature, science, and math.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Students Write a Newspaper
In this project-based language development instructional activity, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The instructional activity...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Legendary Lighthouses
In this technology-based interdisciplinary lesson, students will discover many facts about lighthouses by navigating the Internet. Students have the opportunity to use the facts they learn to create their own stories about lighthouses.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using a Fairy Tale to Teach the Elements of a Story
Students will hear and read different versions of a familiar fairy tale and identify what elements a story must have (character, plot, setting) for the story to be interesting and make sense. Using a Venn diagram, students will then...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Asking and Answering Questions About Our Story
Today's instructional activity is all about asking and answering questions so we can strengthen comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Collection
This collection foster students' interest in reading and writing, and encourage positive social skills with this collection of classroom resources from ARTHUR. Aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, these resources feature...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
Starfall
Starfall: Folk Tales
This is an interactive collection of six folk tales. Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: The Four Friends
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Four Friends". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: The Little Red Hen
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Little Red Hen". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: The Little Rooster
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Little Rooster". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: Chicken Little
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "Chicken Little". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Starfall
Starfall: The Turnip
This is an interactive ebook of the folk tale "The Turnip". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.