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“The Crow and the Pitcher” Fable ELA Bundle & Place Value: 10x the Value Math Bundle

4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Fable, Literary, Math, Numbers and Operations in Base Ten

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills: ELA:

  • Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
  • Ask and answer text dependent questions in order synthesize, summarize and infer the purpose of this fable
  • Create a graphic novel to demonstrate their understanding of the moral/lesson
Math: Place Value, Multi-digit Numbers Whole Numbers, 10x the Value

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources: ELA: Required:

  • printed student copies of the fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" (1 per student)
Optional:
  • printable "Exit Slips"  as an assessment component
Math: Optional: printable exit slips as an assessment component for segments 1 & 2 (1 copy per student), Optional: printable student game directions (1 copy per group)

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, 4.NBT.A.1

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

This ELA & Math Bundle contains:

ELA:

Teaching students to read with meaning and not “bark” at print can be challenging!  In this 4 lesson bundle (30-60 minutes each)  using the fable, “The Crow and the Pitcher” your multi-lingual learners experience supported and guided collaborative conversations using sentence frames in order to demonstrate their understanding of this complex text.  They will:

  • Segment 1: Synthesize a fable to discover key details and find a central message
  • Segment 2: Determine the main events of a fable and analyze a character. In addition, students will create a graphic novel to show their understanding of main events and sequential order
  • Segment 3: Identify and defend the lesson or moral of a fable using text supports and identify words or phrases that help with visualizing the fable
  • Segment 4: Write a summary and create a cartoon strip identifying key details from the fable

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.

Math:

This bundle of lesson plans is broken down into 3 separate segments (30-60 minutes each) addressing Numbers and Operations in Base Ten: place value understanding of multi-digit whole numbers. Students will learn key place value vocabulary, take helpful notes for reference, complete independent practice of concepts and play a game to reinforce the concept of 10x the value.

  • Segment 1: students will recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
  • Segment 2: students will identify the value of a number in multiple place values (for example: 500= 500 ones, or 50 tens, or 5 hundreds).
  • Segment 3: students will demonstrate their understanding of the above-mentioned concepts through playing a card game in pairs or small groups.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.