Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: The Ants and the Grasshopper[pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"The Ants and the Grasshopper" is a one page, fable about grasshoppers who played all summer while the ants worked gathering food for winter. When winter came, the grasshoppers were hungry. It is followed by questions which require...
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables: "Ant and the Grasshopper"

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The importance of planning is the moral of this tale, written both in its traditional version and in a more modernized rendition.
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Grasshopper and the Ant

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site shares the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ant. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Other

Aesop's Fables

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
You can read illustrated versions of five of Aesop's famous fables here.