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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Reading: The Hare and the Tortoise

For Students 1st - 8th
A translation of Aesop's fable "The Hare and the Tortoise."
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Reading: The Hare and the Hound

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A translation of Aesop's fable "The Hare and the Hound."
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EL Education

El Education: The Fish and Their Gifts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
High school students write and illustrate original fables for younger students and create bilingual children's books to encourage cultural awareness on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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EL Education

El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Text Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] 6 text structures - diary, fiction, nonfiction, biography, fairy tale, fable, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
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Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Fables

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Landscape with Fables", created by Adriaan Van Stalbemt in 1620 (Oil on panel, 129 x 169 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Fable of Diogenes

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Fable of Diogenes", created by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglionez (Oil on canvas, 97 x 145 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Voltaire Narrating a Fable

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Voltaire Narrating a Fable", created by Jean Huberz (Oil on panel, 33 x 23 cm).
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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Living Forever

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A click-through story about the power of words and illustrations to open readers' minds to unique ways of looking at the world.
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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Playing From the Heart

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read a click-through story about rediscovering the joy of making music.
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Other

Aesop's Fables Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides links to 127 of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.
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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: The Abc's of North Star Dreaming

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An inspirational alphabet of children's dreams based on The North Star, a children's book about following your own path in life.
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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A story about the importance of following your own path through life, not the path others have taken. Told with great simplicity and beautifully illustrated, The North Star celebrates independence, spirited inquiry, and a life full of...
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Other

Aesop's Fables: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens separated into staves or sections.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Legends, Myths, and Other Traditional Tales

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with fifteen links to texts, videos, and websites about legends, myths, fables, and folktales.
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Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepard's World of Stories: Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Etc.

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published...
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University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Mythology Electronic Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a handy site from the University of Pittsburgh for making comparisons in the folklore of different cultures. It is organized by themes. For instance, you could scroll down to the theme "Man and Serpent," click on that and read...
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Other

Legends

For Students 3rd - 8th
Looking for fun and entertaining legends to read to your students? Try this site and explore the easy to read online stories. `
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Harvard University

Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions" by Mary Carruthers is a literary analysis of the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and her reference to Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigative Case: Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...
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PBS

Pbs the West: Cities of Gold

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site recounts the efforts of Spanish explorers to find the fabled gold of the New World.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
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Other

Dr. Seward's Gila Monster Web Site: Gila Monsters

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to covering morphology, range, unique adaptations, activity patterns food & metabolism, and intraspecific interactions, this this site examines several interesting superstitions and fables related to the gila monster.

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