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“The Crow and the Pitcher” 3rd Grade Fable Bundle
3rd Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
Quick Facts
Subject: ELA, Fable, Literary
Type: Lesson Plan Bundle
Skills:
- Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
- Determine the key details and setting
- Create a graphic novel that summarizes their understanding of the components of a fable
Materials Needed:
- Blank pieces of white paper (2 per student)
- Lined paper
- Pencils, crayons
- Document camera/chart paper/ or whiteboard (used for examples)
Printable Resources: Required:
- student copies of the fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" (1 copy per student)
- "Exit Slips" as an assessment component
CCSS: RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.3.4
File Type: PDF Document
Lesson Plan Description
Perfect for multilingual learners, this fable lesson supports oral language development with strategic use of sentence frames and collaborative work. Your students 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 words or phrases that help with visualizing the fable.
- Segment 4: write a summary and create aa graphic novel demonstrating their understanding
These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.