Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide CA | Culminating Activites 221Retelling a Fable with Puppets
Materials: Puppet-making supplies
Have students make simple puppets of the characters from a particular
fable and then use them to retell the fable.On Stage
Reread a nursery rhyme or fable, and have students act it out. Good
choices for this activity include: “Ring Around the Rosie,” “Jack Be
Nimble,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe,” and the three
fables.Domain-Related Trade Book or Student Choice
Materials: Domain-related trade books
Read an additional fable or another version of one of the three fables in
the anthology. Refer to the books listed in the domain introduction. You
may also choose to have students select a read-aloud to be heard again.➶ Above and Beyond: Ask students to orally compare and contrast two
versions of the same fable, either as a group or individually.
Exploring Student Resources
Materials: Domain-related websites
Pick appropriate websites from the Internet or “Websites and Other
Resources” in the Introduction for further exploration of nursery rhymes,
rhyming words, fables, and morals of a story.Videos of Fables
Materials: Short videos of fables covered in this domain
Peruse the Internet for short videos of fables covered in this domain.
Prepare some questions about the videos to ask the class.
Have students compare and contrast the videos to their related Flip Book
images.
Discuss how watching a video of a fable and listening to a fable are
similar and different.