Fables and Folktales Activity
- Grades
- Preschool–Junior Kindergarten, Grades 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Independent and Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension
- Resource types
- Literacy Readers
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This activity is perfect for helping your students learn to retell fables and folktales from diverse cultures! It's a great way for them to learn the central message, lesson, or moral of each story.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Retell a fable or folktale in order
Identify the moral or lesson of a story
Describe a story's setting, main character and problem
Teaching tips
Stories such as The Lion and the Mouse or The Ant and the Grasshopper are listed as choices, but the texts themselves are not included, so gather copies first.
Skills covered
Retelling — describing a story's beginning, middle and end
Theme — naming the message or moral of a fable
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Core concepts
Fables
Folktales
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