Pages and pages of engaging activities, worksheets, and writing projects on teaching folktales and fables await you! You don't want to miss this incredible resource that not only includes a wide range of topics and graphic...

Engage and entertain young learners with this collection of readers theatre activities. With over 25 different scripts, a wide range of topics are covered from simple counting and rhyming exercises to adaptions of popular children's...

As part of their study of future tense verbs, language learners engage in activities, read fables, and sing songs. The 25-page packet includes detailed lessons, worksheets, graphic organizers, and answer keys for assessments.

Accompany the story, Town Mouse Country Mouse by Jan Brett with an assortment of activities designed to reinforce concepts covering story structure, comprehension, grammar, and social studies. Here, scholars identify the difference...

The raven is the focus of a lesson that examines trickster tales and the different stories about the bird. After listening to three tales about the raven, scholars pinpoint and discuss descriptive words. Pupils use one story to...

Your class members will each explore a European country of their choice and report back to the class using a creative PowerPoint or Prezi. They will not only include a basic introduction to the country, but also what they discovered...

Prepare to teach Jan Brett stories by taking a look at this teacher resource, which includes text-based questions, writing assignments, discussion ideas, and vocabulary practice for 18 different stories.

Celebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.

Read this traditional fable of "The Lion and the Mouse" to learn that even little friends can do great things. Two illustrated versions are provided. Both include the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other has...

Read and view illustrations for a traditional and then a modern-day retelling of Aesop's fable "The Man and the Satyr."

Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.

Read the illustrated fable "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" to learn that things are not always the way they look on the outside. Then read the same fable with modern illustrations to see a different perspective and make connections.

Fables include common elements, such as a moral, characters, and a setting. This activity walks students through the process of creating a fable by selecting each item from a list, then putting it all together.

"A Great Digger: A North American Fable" is a one-page fable about Benny the Badger who dug holes for all the other animals in the plains. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...

"City Mouse: A Fable" is a one- page fable about a city mouse and a country mouse. The city mouse visits the country mouse where food is limited. The country mouse visits the city where the food is great, but there is constant danger. It...

Six short stories based on Chinese fables to read online. The stories are at about a Grade 2 reading level.

You can read illustrated versions of five of Aesop's famous fables here.

A reader's theater script for Aesop's fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper, is provided on these pages. Five character roles are needed in this activity.

This activity from the Marvine Elementary School provides a series of crossword puzzles that are linked to a collection of over 40 Aesop's Fables. Students are directed to read a particular fable in order to solve a crossword clue. The...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site shares the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ant. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A retelling of the classic fable of the shepherd boy who cried wolf. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

A reader's theater script is provided for a story, Who Was King. Five character roles are needed in this activity.

Delve into 14 chapters of the captivating story of the "Seven Powers," and see how it all ends in the final combat. This site was created with the reader in mind because of its excellent font selection.

Listen to folk tales from around the world, and recreate one of the stories in a play.