Fables Teaching Theme Passages Characters Activities Readers Theater 3.2 4.2 #4

Teaching themes in literature using fables is one of the easiest approaches to helping students determine the messages in literature. MUST SEE PREVIEW.

This resource is thoroughly and carefully planned out with guiding questions essential to students' success in determining theme (moral). Everything you need to engage your students in a close read is at your fingertips: from character and plot analysis, determining the message (moral), using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words, to practicing fluency and expression skills through readers' theater.

Detailed lesson plans (with formative assessments), teacher's notes, and answer keys are included to guide instruction.

Just print and teach or assign in Google Classroom and go!

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⭐ Through the close reading activities in this flipbook, students will:

✔ read grade-level appropriate texts

✔ describe characters' traits, feelings, actions, or motives, and how they influence the events or outcome of the fable

✔ evaluate the character's actions and the result of those actions

✔ retell the fable using the most important details in the fable

✔ determine the moral of the fable and how it applies the reader

✔ infer how the outcome of the story might have been different had the character made better choices

✔ find and use evidence from the text to support thinking

✔ determine the meaning of words using context clues

✔ practice fluency and expression through readers' theater activities

✔ apply their knowledge of vocabulary words through an activity

✔ determine what's important by identifying key details from the story

⭐ The double-sided flipbook and digital flipbook includes:

► an introduction to fables and who Aesop was

► the fable passage: The Fox & the Crow

► an introduction to typical characters found in fables (includes a list of character traits organized to display opposite traits- positive traits vs. negative traits)

► graphic organizers and questions for analyzing/evaluating character traits, motives, actions

► an introduction to the plot of a story

► graphic organizers and questions for analyzing/evaluating the plot of the fable

► an introduction to the moral of a fable

► questioning that guides students in determining the moral of The Fox & the Crow

► a text-to-self reading response activity that has students make connections between the moral and how it might apply to students’ own lives

► a vocabulary activity that promotes the use of context clues to figure out unknown words

⭐ Fluency Resources Include:

► Readers' Theater script

► Student planning guide for Readers' Theater

► Expression cards for practicing the use of intonation within a fluent performance of the script

☕Teacher resources include:

► 5-Day detailed lesson plans from which you can construct your own lessons or print and use as guidance

► Teacher’s notes and answer keys are included to assist with optimizing a close read of the text and to guide meaningful discussions.

❤️For more resources to teach themes in literature, check out these fables:

Teaching Theme- Fables Tortoise and Hare

Teaching Theme- Fables Crow and Pitcher

Teaching Theme- Fables Ant and Grasshopper

Teaching Theme- Fables Lion and Mouse

Teaching Theme- Fables Fox and Stork

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♛Use fairy tales for teaching themes in literature:

Teaching Theme- Fairy Tales Beauty & the Beast

Teaching Theme- Fairy Tales Rapunzel

Teaching Theme- Fairy Tales Princess & the Pea

Teaching Theme- Fairy Tales Rumpelstiltskin

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Teaching Themes in Literature Toolkit

Teaching Theme in Literature Posters (over 50 posters)

Toolkit and Cursive Posters for teaching themes in Literature:

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