Pupils read about trees that give their means of destruction away to a man in Aesop's fable "The Man and the Wood." The activity after reading challenges scholars to create a narrative with a new ending to the fable.

Concepts

aesop's fables, narratives, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pick a writing skill, such as creating dialogue or imagery and have a writers workshop before assigning the activity
• Use an anchor text as a model narrative to communicate expectations    

Classroom Considerations

• Consider printing PDFs for learners that do not have Internet access

Pros

• Audio recording, which is 40 seconds long, differentiates the passage for all readers
• A readability score of 7.0 is rigorous and posted on the resource for quick reference
  

Cons

• Rubric for activity is not attached

Common Core

W.5.3.a W.6.3.a W.7.3.a W.8.3.a