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FableVision

Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
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TES Global

Tes: Prose. Toad Rage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features related activities connected to Morris Geitzman's book, Toad Rage. Students will read a fable, nonfiction reading, prose reading, and connected writing activities.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Semantic Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson introduces learners to comprehension of knowing how words work. Students learn semantic feature analysis and examine folktales, myths, and fables using this analysis to better understand these terms and texts.
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EL Education

El Education: The Wolf That Would Forgive

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Gunter Grass

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the life and writing of Gunter Grass -- the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature -- through this multimedia website, which provides video clips, primary texts, images, and resources.
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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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Harvard University

Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of John Dryden's (1631-1700) Preface to The Fables (1700), the English poet's translation of Chaucer texts from the middle English. Dryden compares the styles of Ovid, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.
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EL Education

El Education: The Fish and Their Gifts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
High school students write and illustrate original fables for younger students and create bilingual children's books to encourage cultural awareness on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Harvard University

The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Flower and the Leaf"

For Students 9th - 10th
John Dryden's (1631-1700)translation from the middle English of a poem once attributed to Chaucer. Preface to The Fables (1700)Modern English translation by John Dryden of Chaucer's "The Flower and the Leaf."
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigative Case: Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
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Rutgers University

Asbestoswear: James Thurber's "The Little Girl and the Wolf"

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides the online text of Thurber's very short but clever fable "The Little Girl and the Wolf."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Secular Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Not all manuscripts during the Middle Ages and Renaissance were religious in nature. This period abounded with volumes that contained histories, romances, fables, and legal and scientific writings. The rise of universities paralleled the...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Joel Chandler Harris

For Students 9th - 10th
Creator of Uncle Remus and other African American folklore tales, journalist Joel Chandler Harris is featured as a revolutionary writer regarding oppression and prejudices. For more resources click the "Joel Chandler Harris Activities" tab.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: James Russell Lowell Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania site provides a biography of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Discusses his ancestry, education, and work as a poet, essayist, and satirist. Describes Lowell's role in the Abolitionist movement. Includes suggestions for...
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Other

Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Louisa May Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of many of Alcott's famous works, a brief biography and a portrait are offered here. The most unusual feature is the ability to annotate the works as you read. Great for notetaking, adding marginalia, raising questions,...

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