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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Lesson: Exploring Russian Folktales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Expand on your students' knowledge of storytelling with this lesson plan on Russian folktales. Provides several links to examples, assessment criteria, and a short list of other sources.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: The Moral of the Story Is...

For Students 9th - 10th
The site provides ten trivia questions about fables. Fables from Aesop and from The Holy Bible are included in this quiz.
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Website
University of Massachusetts

Aesop's Fables

For Students 3rd - 5th
Very unique site that presents Aesop's Fables with traditional and modern pictures. Pictures are created by art students at University of Massachusetts Amherst. There is an index to search by individual stories.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables With Jon Scieszka

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this resource students will have an opportunity to learn about fractured fairy tales and fables with the help of Jon Scieszka. This site also features a writer's workshop where students can write their own fractured tale and publish...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Lion and the Spider [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Lion and the Spider" is a one page fable about a lion who tried to get a spider to make a web for him big enough to catch his food. The spider said that was not possible, the lion tore down its web, and the spider bit him on the...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Turtle and the Ducks [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"The Turtle and the Ducks" is a one page fairy tale/fable a turtle who wants to fly south with the ducks. They develop a plan, but the turtle will have to keep his mouth shut. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Aesop

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Aesop including the full text of Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables.
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Primary
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: Aesop's Fables: "Hercules and the Wagoner"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text and audio for this translation of the Aesop fable "Hercules And The Wagoner." Available online, print, and download.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Fable

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Fable." It defines the term, explains its characteristics, provides background including Aseop's Fables and those from various countries, and offers a list of fabulists and their works.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Favourite Fables, in Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Favourite Fables, in Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir [1870], a collection of illustrated fables in prose and verse.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Story of Reynard the Fox by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Story of Reynard the Fox by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1861), a legendary fable.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aesop's Fables by Aesop

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Aesop's Fables by Aesop (c1884), a collection of fables.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aesop's Fables

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Aesop's Fables, a book of fables for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Hundred Fables of Aesop

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Aesop's Fables, a book of fables for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Baby's Own Aesop by Aesop

For Students 1st - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Baby's Own Aesop by Aesop (1887), features fables condensed in rhyme and moral from the originals.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Reynard the Fox in South Africa by w.h.i. Bleek

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or, Hottentot Fables and Tales by W.H.I Bleek (1864), a collection of fables.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aesops Fables by Aesop

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Aesops Fables by Aesop, (1880?) a collection of fables.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Select Fables From Aesop, and Others

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Select Fables from Aesop, and Others, a book of fables for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Baby's Book of Fables by Frederick Warne and Co.

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Baby's Book of Fables by Frederick Warne and Co., (1880?) a picture book of fables.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Book: Aesop's Fables by Aesop

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the full text of Aesop's Fables by Aesop, a collection of fables.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Morality "Tails" East and West

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Website
Other

U. Of Delaware Library: World of the Child

For Students 9th - 10th
An accompanying website to the Two Hundred Years of Children's Books exhibition at the U. of Delaware Library provides examples of early works, fables, primers, poetry, stories before and after 1850 and pop-ups and movables.
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eBook
Other

Personal: Fables of Jean De La Fontaine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a short English biographical introduction. Each available fable appears in English translation, followed by the original French.