It's one thing to have an idea, but someone has to put it into action! Young pupils read a rendition of Aesop's fable of the mice in the council before answering four questions about details from the text.

Concepts

aesop's fables, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Project onto the board for learners to complete as a class
• Add to a reading assessment to determine placement in reading groups
• Connect to a unit on Aesop's fables

Classroom Considerations

• Designed for first graders, but vocabulary and sentence structure may be better suited for older readers
• Questions do not address the theme of the story, which is the main point of teaching Aesop's fables; consider adding a question about what the story is trying to say
• Does not include an answer key
• Final page is blank

Pros

• Passage and questions are on the same page

Cons

• Title is not descriptive, preventing learners from making predictions about the reading
• Passage does not include the fable's moral, which makes the ending more difficult to understand

Common Core

RL.1.1