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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Great Digger a Fable [Pdf]
"A Great Digger: A North American Fable" is a one-page fable about Benny the Badger who dug holes for all the other animals in the plains. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: City Mouse a Fable [Pdf]
"City Mouse: A Fable" is a one- page fable about a city mouse and a country mouse. The city mouse visits the country mouse where food is limited. The country mouse visits the city where the food is great, but there is constant danger. It...
University of Massachusetts
Aesop's Fables: "The Donkey and the Lap Dog"
Learn that sometimes not all jokes are funny in Aesop's tale "The Donkey and the Lap Dog." The story is offered in its traditional version as well as a more modernized rendition. Slideshow pacing encourages independent reading.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: "Fable" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Fable" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Picture Fables in Verse
A scanned copy of the 1856 publication of Picture Fables in Verse, a book of poetry for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Fables of Aesop
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fables of Aesop, a book of stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, a book of stories, hymns, and poems for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Fables and Rhymes
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Fables and Rhymes by Aesop, a book of poems and stories for children.
Other
What Makes an "Amazing" Fable Captivating?
Students become the authors, producers and actors in their own multimedia fables, after they study fable characteristics for this instructional activity.
Other
Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Online Collection
This site provides you with 245 of Ambrose Bierces' Fantastic Fables. This online collection is not sorted but shown in order as the fables were published.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables: "Ant and the Grasshopper"
The importance of planning is the moral of this tale, written both in its traditional version and in a more modernized rendition.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables: "The Dog in the Manger"
Feeling envious? Read Aesop's tale "The Dog in the Manger" in its traditional format and in a modern version to better understand this powerful feeling.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Making Numbers Count/ Math Fables
This site features a book called "Math Fables, Making Numbers Count" by Greg Tang. Come and check out this interdisciplinary approach to learning to count.
Starfall
Starfall: Chinese Fables
Six short stories based on Chinese fables to read online. The stories are at about a Grade 2 reading level.
Other
Tal Cohen's Bookshelf: The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
Thorough review of "How the World Was Saved", the first story in "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age", the masterpiece by Stanislaw Lem.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Appu Series: Fine Feathers: An Aesopian Fable
A video of the book "Fine Feathers: An Aesopian Fable", written by Appu Series. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: The Silly North Wind & the Clever Sun: An Aesopian Fable
A video of the book "The Silly North Wind and The Clever Sun: An Aesopian Fable", written by Appu Series. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: The Woodcutter's Good Deed: An Aesopian Fable
A video of the book "The Woodcutter's Good Deed: An Aesopian Fable", written by Appu Series. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Favourite Book of Fables by Aesop
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Favourite Book of Fables by Aesop (1890), a collection of illustrated fables.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fabulous Fables
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the characteristics of a fable, gives some history of Aesop with a video clip. Student assessment questions and web links are included. Students end with an original writing...
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: Aesop's Fables Book 3
"Aesop's Fables Book 3", published in 1912 by William Heinemann, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 38 page book is appropriate for intermediate readers.
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: Aesop's Fables Book 2
"Aesop's Fables Book 2", published in 1912 by William Heinemann, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 47 page book is appropriate for intermediate readers.
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: Aesop's Fables Book 1
"Aesop's Fables Book 1", published in 1912 by William Heinemann, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 50 page book is appropriate for intermediate readers.
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