Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 11 | The Hare and the Tortoise 189

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Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Listen to and demonstrate familiarity with “The Hare and the Tortoise”

 Identify and describe the main characters: the hare and the tortoise

 Retell the events in “The Hare and the Tortoise”

 Identify the moral of “The Hare and the Tortoise”

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson.

Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted

with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment

Chart for additional standards that are addressed in all lessons in this

domain.

Students will:

 Recognize common types of texts, such as nursery rhymes and

fables (RL.K.5)

 Listen to and understand the fable “The Hare and the Tortoise” (RL.K.5)

 With prompting and support, describe illustrations, such as a picture

of a hare, and a picture of a tortoise, to support comprehension of the

read-aloud (RL.K.7)

 With prompting and support, describe differences in the experiences

of the hare and the tortoise in “The Hare and the Tortoise” (RL.K.9)

 Describe familiar things, such as rabbits and turtles (SL.K.4)

 Produce and expand sentences in shared language activities (L.K.1f)

 Identify new meanings for familiar words, such as break, and apply

them accurately (L.K.4a)

 Identify real-life connections between words—steadily, finish, break,

boasting, and race—and their use (L.K.5c)