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Teaching with Aesop's Fables Lesson PlanTeaching with Aesop's Fables Lesson Plan
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Teaching with Aesop's Fables

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Bring the applicable morals of Aesop's Fables to your classroom with a series of reading comprehension activities. With 12 different fables with activities and exercises, the packet focuses on the ways learners can apply the fables and lessons to their own lives and communities.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

aesop's fables, reading comprehension, morals

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Complete one lesson at a time throughout the school year, or create a unit out of as many of the lessons as you'd like
  • Send home one of the lessons for extra practice with parents
  • Save the lessons for substitute teaching days

Classroom Considerations

  • The packet is 64 pages long, but each lesson is only four pages in length, including the fable itself

Pros

  • Each activity features a different fable, writing prompts, opportunities for cross-curricular assignments, discussion topics, and links to other books with similar themes
  • Provides reading comprehension templates at the end of the packet, as well as extension activities and a bibliography

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3

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