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“The Crow and the Pitcher” 3rd Grade Fable Bundle

3rd Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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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)
Optional:
  • "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.