COMMON CORE STANDARDS:

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central
message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the
story and the ending concludes the action.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate
understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.4
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details,
speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

THEME: Fables
LESSON TOPIC: Introduction to Fables
OBJECTIVES:
Content:
Students will be able to summarize a fable.
Students will be able to state what must be included in a fable.
Students will be able to recognize and say what the moral of the story is.

Language:
Students will be able to define morals.
Students will be able to discuss morals and their meanings with their classmates.

KEY VOCABULARY:
Content Vocabulary:
Fable, Morals, Fiction, Nonfiction

Cross-Curricular Vocabulary:
Summarize, Define, Discuss, State

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:

The Tortoise and the Hare picture book

Poster of the components of a fable
Sentence strips with a definition of fable and moral
Poster with outline of summarizing activity
Markers

MOTIVATION:
(Building background and explicit links to past learning)

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Introduce the unit topic, which are fables.

Tell them the definition of a fable and what must be included in it. (Go over the poster)
Ask the students what they think the definition of morals is.
Tell the students the definition of morals and post the definition on the board.
Ask the students to give examples of how they use morals in their lives.

LESSON SEQUENCE:
(Language and content objectives, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, feedback)
Read the Tortoise and the Hare.
Occasionally stop and ask questions about the story to check comprehension.
Go over the chart as a class by asking the students to summarize the story and asking them what
the moral of the story was. Start by going over the key vocabulary in the story.
Then ask the students to summarize the fable by splitting it into four parts (first, next, then, last).
Finish by going over what the moral of the story is.

PRACTICE AND APPLICATION: MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES

(Meaningful activities, interaction, strategies, practice and application, feedback)
As a class, recall and summarize the fable.
Have students turn to their partner and discuss what should come next on the summarizing chart.
Distinguish what the moral of the story is. Ask how this moral can relate to their lives.
When finished writing the fable, read as a class what their summary was.

REVIEW/ASSESSMENT:
(Review objectives and vocabulary, assess learning)
Quiz the students on the definition of a fable and morals.
Ask them to turn to their partner and tell them what are the key components that need to be
included in a story in order to call it a fable.

WRAP-UP: (Go over content and language objectives; closure of lesson)

Explain briefly to the students what they will be doing in the next lesson.
(Reproduction of this material is restricted to use with Echevarria, Vogt, and Short, 2013. Making Content
Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model.)

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