Don't let jealousy overshadow thankfulness for your blessings. Aesop's "The Dog and the Shadow" presents a jealous dog and his lost meal with an audio recording and annotation activity to reinforce the fable's theme with textual evidence.

Concepts

aesop's fables, literary themes, explanatory writing, reading comprehension, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• To extend instruction after the activity, have fishbowl discussions where pupils share evidence to support their opinions
• Project the text version of the fable onto the board so learners can write their annotations with dry-erase markers

Classroom Considerations

• Materials list includes sticky notes, a pencil, and copies of the fable for each individual
• Flesch-Kincaid readability score is 4.0
• Audio recording duration is 0:46

Pros

• Encourages active reading skills

Cons

• None

Common Core

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