Are thoughts of superiority ever justified? Aesop's fable "The Tree and the Reed" is about a tree that thinks he's better than a reed and is taught otherwise by nature.The post-reading compare/contrast activity features a graphic organizer for readers to complete.

Concepts

aesop's fables, active reading, compare and contrast, characterization

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the organizer from the activity as pre-writing for a compare/contrast essay 
• Consider having pupils draw the characters and present evidence from the text to justify their artistic decisions

Classroom Considerations

• Review the word obscurity with readers before looking at the 143-word passage

Pros

• Posts the readability score of 5.0 is
  
• Online format of the 1:02 audiobook recording that is part of a larger series differentiates the passage for all learners

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.3 RL.6.3 RL.7.3 RL.8.3