Aesop's "The Wolf and the Lamb" is about a lamb that becomes a victim of a wolf despite any attempt to appease his aggressor. After reading the fable that is part of a larger series, pupils complete an activity to research and apply vocabulary words such as astray, grossly, refute, and tyranny.

Concepts

academic vocabulary, aesop's fables, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a discussion to encourage text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections
• Create a word wall with the vocabulary from the post-reading activity

Classroom Considerations

• Make copies of passages for classrooms without Internet access

Pros

• 1:09 audiobook recording differentiates the passage for all readers
• Provides an automatically generated MLA. APA, and Chicago citation for Aesop's fable
  

Cons

• Resource does not include an answer key for the vocabulary activity

Common Core

RL.5.4 RL.6.4 RL.7.4 RL.8.4