Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 4A | The Dog in the Manger 67

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.”


• Review the three characteristics of a fable: fables are very short
  stories, they teach a lesson called “the moral of the story,” and they
  sometimes have animal characters that act like people.


• Tell students the morals of “The Goose and the Golden Eggs”: He
  who wants more often loses all. If you are greedy, you might lose
  what you already have. When you want something, be patient. Read
  the student-created moral of the story written under the image of the
  fable.


• Have partner pairs retell this fable using Response Card 3 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 Dog in the Manger”

 Show image 4A-1: Ox talking to the dog in the manger

• Tell students that today they will hear a fable called, “The Dog in the
  Manger.”


• Ask students whether they see any people in the picture. Tell students
  that in today’s fable there are no people. All the characters are
  animals. And the animals talk! Many of Aesop’s fables have animals
  that act like people.


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

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