Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 6A | The Fox and the Grapes 97

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Fable Review

• Ask students about the three characteristics of fables. (Fables are
  short, have a moral, and sometimes have animal characters that act
  like people.)


• Ask students if they remember who made up the fables they have
  been hearing. (The fables were made up by a famous storyteller
  called Aesop (EE-sop).) His fables are known as “Aesop’s Fables.”


• Tell students the morals of “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”: Things are
  not always as they seem. If you pretend to be what you are not, you
  might end up losing in the end. Read the student-created morals of
  the story written under the image of the fable.


• Have partner pairs retell this fable using Response Card 5 to point out
  the characters, talk about the setting, and show the progression of
  the plot. Allow one minute for students to talk. Call on one volunteer
  partner pair to retell the fable.
  Personification Chart

Animal

Things that

Animals Really Do

Things that Animals Really

Can’t Do (Personification)

oxen Pull the plow

Eat hay

Talk in a polite manner, saying

“excuse me” and “please”

wolf Prowls

Wants to eat sheep

Dresses in disguise to trick

others

Note: Explain to students that you are going to talk about the fable

and that you are going to write down what they say, but that they are

not expected to be able to read what you write because they are still

learning all the rules for decoding. Emphasize that you are writing

what they say so that you don’t forget, and tell them that you will read

the words to them.

• Ask students to point out on Response Card 5 the animal that acts
  like a person. (The wolf acts like a person.)

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