Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 10B | The Lion and the Mouse 187

Extensions 15 minutes

On Stage

• Use Image Cards 1–4 for retelling the events of this fable. This may
  be done as a class or in partner pairs. Encourage students to use
  temporal words, such as first, then, next, later, finally, etc., when they
  retell the events in the fable.


• Divide students into pairs, assigning one student the role of the lion,
  and the other student the role of the mouse.


• Explain that you will be the narrator—someone who tells the story.
  Explain that they will say the dialogue, the conversation between two
  characters.
  Note: Students should not be expected to say the lines word for
  word; they should say what they think the character said at a given
  time.


• Tell students that they will say what their character says when you
  pause and give them the signal to talk (e.g., when you touch your
  nose). Encourage students to change their voices when they say what
  their characters say.


• Ask students, “What is a conversation between two characters
  called?”
  
  
  • A conversation between two characters is called a dialogue.
  
  
  
  


• Ask students, “Who is having a dialogue in this fable?”
  
  
  • The lion and the mouse are having a dialogue.
  
  
  
  

Sequencing “The Lion and the Mouse”

Materials: Instructional Master 10B-1; piece of paper; scissors; glue

or tape

Directions: This worksheet has three pictures. One shows what is

happening at the beginning of “The Lion and the Mouse.” One shows

what is happening in the middle of the fable. One shows what is

happening at the end of the fable.

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