8 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide | Introduction
What Students Have Already Learned in Core Knowledge
Language Arts During Kindergarten
The following domains, and the specific core content that was targeted
in those domains, are particularly relevant to the read-alouds students
will hear in Fables and Stories. This background knowledge will greatly
enhance your students’ understanding of the read-alouds they are about
to enjoy:
Nursery Rhymes and Fables- Demonstrate familiarity with nursery rhymes and fables
- Describe the characters and events in nursery rhymes and fables
- Explain that fables teach a lesson that is stated as the moral of the
story - Identify the moral of fables
- Explain how animals often act as people in fables (personification)
Stories - Listen to and then demonstrate familiarity with stories, including the
ideas they express - Explain that fiction can be in many different forms, including folktales,
trickster tales, and tall tales - Identify the setting of a given story
- Identify the characters of a given story
- Identify the plot of a given story