26 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 1A | The Boy Who Cried Wolf
[Ask students whether there was really a wolf.]
Again the farmers ran to help him, and again they found out there was
no wolf after all.[Have students look at the farmers’ expressions. Ask students: “How do you
think the farmers feel about the shepherd boy’s prank?” Call on three students
to share.]
A few days later, a real wolf came from the forest and began to
steal the sheep. The startled boy ran toward the valley. He was
very scared and surprised, and more loudly than ever he cried,
“! !” (Wolf! Wolf!)[Ask students whether there was really a wolf.]
But the farmers in the valley, who had been fooled by the boy’s
pranks twice before, thought that the boy was playing the same prank
and was tricking them again. So no one came to help the boy save his
sheep.What is the moral of this story?[You may wish to have partner pairs discuss. Call on two volunteers to share
the moral of this story in their own words. Write their paraphrase under the
image of the fable.]
Moral: If you often don’t tell the truth, people won’t believe you even
when you are telling the truth.