Expose young readers to a new genre of fiction with a short reading passage. After learning about fables, children identify the main idea and supporting details in preparation for writing a short summary. Read the text as a class, discussing the main idea and supporting details as a whole group, or have students work independently. Use this resource to introduce a unit on fables, or as practice identifying main ideas and supporting details in order to write summaries.

Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, supporting details, details, fables, summarizing

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Additional Tags

summary writing, Reading Passage, fables, main idea, supporting details, english language arts

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Pros

• Reading passage provides a clear description of fables with supporting examples
• Includes a sentence frame to help young writers begin their summaries

Cons

• Text includes very short, fragmented sentence structure
• Requires additional scaffolding to support students with writing summaries

Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.2.2 RI.3.2 RI.4.2 W.2.2 W.3.2.a W.3.2.b W.3.2.d W.4.2.a W.4.2.b