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“The Crow and the Pitcher” Fable Bundle

4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Fable, Literary

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • 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

Materials Needed:

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

Printable Resources: Required: 

  • student copies of the fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" (1 per student)
Optional:
  •  "Exit Slips" assessment component (1 per student)

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

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.