Theme: |
Use Aesop's Fables to Identify Story Message or Moral
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Grades: |
3 - 5
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts
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Duration: |
50-60 minutes
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Standards
& Goals: |
New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
- 3.4. A Connect messages heard to prior knowledge and experiences
- 3.1. G Identify and understand author’s use of analogies and figurative language
- Draw conclusions and inferences from texts
- Participate in creative responses to texts
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Gain an understanding of oral storytelling as an ancient tradition
- Listen to and recognize messages in fables
- Demonstrate comprehension of the relevance of the messages in fables to contemporary life
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