A conceited frog pays the consequence in Aesop's "The Frog and the Ox." Pupils listen to an audio version of the fable before comparing and contrasting it with another with a concept map.

Concepts

compare and contrast, aesop's fables, concept mapping, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity as a pre-writing exercise for a written response
• Review a couple different class examples to provide feedback and model various types of organization

Classroom Considerations

• Flesch-Kincaid readability score is a 2.8 
• Story duration is 1:16

Pros

• Audio recording differentiates the passage for struggling readers
• The online format of the lesson is easy to navigate
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.9 RL.6.9 RL.7.9 RL.8.9