Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 5A | The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing 81

Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Fable Review

• Ask students: “What kind of story is a fable? Is it fiction or is it real?”
  (Fables are fiction.)


• 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.”


• Ask students to tell you the three characteristics of fables. (Fables are
  very short stories that teach a lesson called “the moral of the story,”
  and sometimes have animal characters that act like people.)


• Remind students that “The Dog in the Manger” has an example of
  personification. Ask if they remember which animal acts like a person.
  (The ox acts like a person.)


• Tell students the moral of “The Dog in the Manger”: You should be
  nice and share, especially when someone else needs something more
  than you do. Read the student-created moral of the story written
  under the image of the fable.


• Have partner pairs retell this fable using Response Card 4 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.

Introducing “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”

 Show image 5A-1: The wolf covered with a sheepskin

• Invite students to make up their own title for this fable using the
  illustration. Call on three volunteers to share their title.


• Tell students that today they will hear a fable called, “The Wolf in
  Sheep’s Clothing.”


• Remind students of the three characteristics of a fable: it is short, has
  a moral, and has animals that act like people. Tell students that “The
  Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” has all three characteristics of a fable.

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