Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 3A | The Goose and the Golden Eggs 51

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Fable Review

• Remind students that fables are one type of fiction story.


• Review the three characteristics of fables: fables are very short stories,
  they teach a lesson called “the moral of the story,” and they sometimes
  have animals characters that act like people. Tell students that the
  fables they will hear were made up by a famous storyteller called Aesop
  (EE-sop). The fables they will hear are known as “Aesop’s Fables.”


• Tell students the moral of “The Maid and the Milk Pail”: Don’t count
  your chickens before they’re hatched—don’t count on having
  everything turn out exactly as you plan, because you may be
  disappointed. Read the student-created moral of the story written
  under the image of the fable.


• Have partner pairs retell this fable using Response Card 2 to point out
  the main character and show the progression of the plot. Allow one
  minute for students to talk. Call on one volunteer partner pair to retell
  the fable.

Introducing “The Goose and the Golden Eggs”

 Show image 3A-2: Farmer and the goose’s nest

• Tell students that today they will hear a fable called, “The Goose and
  the Golden Eggs.”


• Ask students who and what they see in the illustration. (a farmer and a
  goose)


• Ask students where they think the setting of this fable will take place.
  How do they know? (The setting of this fable is on a farm because
  there is a red barn and silo in the background.)


• Say to students: “Tell your partner how the farmer might be feeling in
  this picture. Why does the farmer look the way he does?” Allow fifteen
  seconds for students to talk. Call on two partner pairs to share.

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