“The Crow and the Pitcher” Fable Bundle

5th 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.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.5.4

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.