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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: One Rice Thousand Gold

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, One Rice Thousand Gold.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Morning Three Night Four

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Morning Three Night Four.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dung Shi Copies Eyebrows

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Dung-Shi Copies Eyebrows.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Draw Dragon Dot Eyes

For Students K - 1st
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Draw Dragon Dot Eyes.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Cup Bow Snake Reflection

For Students K - 1st
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Cup Bow Snake Reflection.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Yay Gung Loves Dragons

For Students K - 1st
This interactive ebook features the text and optional audio of the old Chinese fable, Yay-Gung Loves Dragons.
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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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Primary
Read Works

Read Works: The Ants and the Grasshopper

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a brief version of the Aesop's Fable "The Ants and the Grasshopper" which is followed by a comprehension question set.
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Website
Other

Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Good resource for exploring Chinese culture and language. Learn about Taiwanese lantern riddles, Chinese folklore, clothing, poetry and fables, papercutting, Chinese New Year, and Chinese festival and every-day cooking. Multimedia makes...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Fox and the Lion

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the fable "The Fox and the Lion" by Aesop, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Ant and the Dove

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the fable "The Ant and the Dove" by Aesop, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Unit Plan
Other

Learning Farm 3rd Grade Reading Messages, Lessons, and Morals Lesson

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will watch an introduction into key terms, then read a fables and answers questions with immediate feedback. There is also an option to chose an interactive assessment and play a choice of games once the student has answered the...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Grasshopper and the Ant

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site shares the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ant. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Finding the Moral

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be able to recount fables and folktales and determine the moral or lesson, explaining how it is conveyed through key details or ideas in the text. Printable resources...
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Aesop's Fables

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Aesop's aesop's Fables has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Tall Tales, Folk Tales, and Fables Review

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
This is a review of 3 stories, then placing the attributes with the correct genre. Although others may not read the exact story, you could just replace the picture with another picture that represents the story you read.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

For Students 9th - 10th
Bulfinch's collection of Greek and Roman myths is available here in full text format. A little known feature of this work is its sections on Eastern mythology, Northern mythology and a section on Druid religion.
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Rubric
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Traditions: Book of Wisdom Project Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-page PDF is a rubric for the "Book of Wisdom Project," which requires students to write two original fables and locate and compile a list of proverbs/sayings, catagorize and illustrate them, and write about the authors. Search...
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Article
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: An Introduction to Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
George Orwell's "Animal Farm" combines animal fable with political satire targeting Stalinist Russia. John Sutherland describes the novel's genesis, its struggle to find a publisher, and its eventual success.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Big Mouse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from Between the Lions features "The Lion and the Mouse" for young students, an introduction to one of many Aesop's fables. illustrates how children can learn by talking about a book as it is read aloud. [4:19]
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Definition of Oral Tradition and Folklore

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This curriculum unit for teaching about "Folklore in the Oral Tradition, Fairytales, Fables and Folk-legend" begins with a definition of Oral Tradition.
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eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. It contains classics such...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...
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eBook
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: The Frog and the Rat

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the University of Pittsburgh provides the text only of the fable by de La Fontaine. Translated into English, but preserved in its original poetic structure.

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