Patience, young grasshopper ... the lesson provides a great experience with narrative writing using an installment from a series of audiobooks of Aesop's Fables. The 57-word passage leads to an engaging activity where your readers argue the theme of the text and support it with evidence. Use it as a pre-assessment before you teach narrative writing to learn more about individualizing instruction for your class.

Concepts

argumentative writing, aesop's fables, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Expand the writing activity with a class debate in which learners support their opinions with evidence from the text
• Extend instruction with a discussion on the bandwagon logical fallacy 

Classroom Considerations

• Flesch-Kincaid readability score is 4.0
• Audio recording duration is 0:38

Pros

• Writing prompt provides space for brainstorming an argument
• Fable does not state the moral, encouraging readers to come to their own conclusions

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.2 W.5.1.a RL.6.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.2 W.6.1.a W.7.1.a W.8.1.a