It's easy to come up with ideas, but much harder to implement them! Learners read along to an audio recording of Aesop's "Belling the Cat" before coming up with a plan that will keep the fable's mice safe while placing a bell on a cat.

Concepts

aesop's fables, critical thinking, informative writing, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Encourage class members to think like an engineer when designing their plan with a cross-curricular assignment to science
• Have learners present their ideas to the class, and hold a vote on the most effective plan

Classroom Considerations

• Have learners work collaboratively on the activity within the resource 

Pros

• The text is rigorous: 7.0 on a Flesh-Kincaid scale
• An audio recording is available to all pupils to differentiate instruction

Cons

Common Core

W.5.2.a W.6.2.a W.7.2.a W.8.2.a