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\nA Selection of Stories from The Æsop for Children\n

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\nRead and incorporate a variety of Aesop's Fables into a fable genre study with an eBook produced by the Library of Congress. The interactive eBook contains 146 fables written by Aesop and includes colorful interactive illustrations...\n
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\nFables: A Short Anthology\n

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\nExplore fables with your class. Learners read a series of fables, including The Mouse and the Lion, and then match the moral to the correct story. This is a great way to end a unit on fables. This resource could also be used to explain...\n
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\nFolk Tales and Fables\n

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\nPages 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...\n
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\nWriting Fables\n

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\nStudents write their own fables. In this writing fables lesson, students use handheld computers to write a fable. The class designs a spreadsheet to organize common elements of fables. Students also edit each others' work.\n
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\nMorality \"Tails\" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales\n

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\nHave your class explore Buddhist Jataka Tales to compare and contrast them to European fables. After defining fables, Jataka tales, and the elements of each, learners identify themes and patterns for both types of narratives and the...\n
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\nJapanese Crane Fable\n

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\nStudents read a famous Japanese fable and discuss why the main character plucked its own feathers. Using construction paper, they cut them into feather shapes and color them using colored pencils. To end the lesson, they attach them to...\n
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\nNursery Rhymes and Fables Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology\n

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\nA 206-page kindergarten anthology offers various nursery rhymes and fables. Each lesson covers a different reading and examines a concept that best relates to the rhyme or fable. Lessons begin with an introduction to the reading, go into...\n
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\nFinancial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl\n

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\nCover two subjects with one lesson! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take...\n
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\nLots of Lessons from Aesop\n

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\nAesop’s Fables offer young learners an opportunity to study figurative language. After reviewing theme, simile, alliteration, and metaphor, model for your pupils how to identify examples of these devices in the fable. Class members then...\n
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\nUnderstanding Theme with Fables\n

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\nWhat is the moral of the story? Ask your class to read a series of fables from which the last line has been removed. After supplying this concluding statement, they must justify their responses. This could be used as an individual or...\n
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\nFearless Fables\n

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\nThis literature-based worksheet presents pupils with the fable \"The Lion and the Elephant Retold\" by Ellen Baumwoll. No lesson is attached but the handout could be used as a resource to create Reader's Theater.\n
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\nThe Four Oxen and the Lion\n

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\nLong before Benjamin Franklin advocated for standing together against the British, Aesop warned about the dangers of a group divided in his fable \"The Four Oxen and the Lion.\" An audio retelling of the story describes a quarreling herd...\n
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\nThe Flies and the Honeypot\n

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\nIs temporary pleasure worth a lifetime of pain? A group of flies learns their unfortunate—and sticky—lesson with Aesop's fable \"The Flies and the Honeypot.\" After listening to an audio version of the tale, class members map the plot...\n
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\nThe Peacock and Juno\n

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\nWhy wouldn't Juno want to give a peacock the voice of a nightingale? After reading Aesop's fable \"The Peacock and Juno,\" individuals learn to be content with what they have because perfection is unattainable. The passage comes with an...\n
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\nThe Man and His Two Wives\n

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\nChallenge pupils by reading a fable about a husband that becomes a victim of his wives' opposite wishes. An audio version of Aesop's fable \"The Man an His Two Wives\" makes for a great station within a rotation or material for a flipped...\n
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\nThe Farmer and the Snake\n

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\nSlither into a stimulating lesson with Aesop's \"The Farmer and the Snake.\" Class members explore the relationship between gratitude and generosity with the fable and practice making predictions with an accompanying reading activity.\n
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\nThe Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing\n

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\nWriters may mistake the lesson in Aesop's 107-word fable as a wolf in sheep's clothing because it's so much fun! All about a wolf that disguises himself as a sheep to prey on those within a flock, individuals discuss the theme of...\n
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\nThe Town Mouse and the Country Mouse\n

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\nWhen does simplicity trump glamor? Readers compare and contrast a country mouse and a town mouse after reading a 312-word fable by Aesop. The graphic organizer differentiates instruction for all readers, scaffolding them to carefully...\n
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\nThe Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts\n

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\nDoes wisdom grow from the misfortune of others? Pupils read Aesop's \"The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts\" and write a personal narrative about a time where they learned something from another's experience. \n
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\nWriting and Presenting a Fable Using Research\n

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\nElementary and middle schoolers research animal facts and use them in a fable. First, they pair-share to find animal traits to use in writing a fable. They then complete a prewriting worksheet. After going through the writing process,...\n
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\nThe Tortoise and the Eagle\n

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\nThe Two Pots\n

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\nMasks and Aesop's Fables\n

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\nLearners study and perform Aesop's fables. In this Aesop's fables lesson, students read and/or listen to a number of the famous fables. They make masks based on the characters and perform a fable using the masks. They write about the...\n
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\nFables\n

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\nThird graders identify the characteristics of fables, and read and compare/contrast various Aesop's fables. Using handheld computers, they read two fables with a partner, complete a Venn Diagram, develop a traits diagram using PiCo Map,...\n
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