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The Tortoise and the Hare (Lexile 660)

Correlated to State Standards

This leveled Read & Understand fable for grade 3 retells the race between Hare & Tortoise, emphasizing the familiar "slow and steady wins the race." Students read the tale, answer questions, use antonyms and adverbs, and cover a variety of reading skills on five activity pages. Also, they compare the tale to "The Wise Old Woman." (Find other leveled stories by searching "Lexile 3.")

Creating Aesop's Fables

This literature unit provides information and directions to teachers about how to make literature pockets and unit covers and how to use the pockets. Also included are a cover sheet and two student evaluation sheets about fables. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for more units.)

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable about the boy who tricked the villagers too many times and learned the moral "no one believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth." The unit includes a two-page story, projects to write about the moral and create a dictionary and minibook, and two art projects. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Cat, the Rooster, and the Mouse (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable about a young mouse who goes into the world, meets a cat and a rooster, and learns the moral "judge others by their actions, not by their looks." The unit includes a two-page story, plus activities to write about the moral, create a new fable, describe characters, and make fingerprint creatures. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Fox and the Goat (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable of how a sly fox tricks a goat into a well and the goat learns the moral "look before you leap." The unit includes a two-page story, plus activities to write about the moral, create a minibook and a picture strip sequence, and describe likenesses/differences in animals. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Fox and the Stork (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable of how Fox tried to play a trick on Stork and learned the moral "treat others the way you want to be treated." The unit includes a two-page story, plus activities to write about the moral, make two puppets and write a play (script form included), and create a "courtesy chain." (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Lion and the Mouse (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Project unit presents the Aesop fable about how the lion is helped by the mouse and learns the moral that "one good turn deserves another." The unit includes a two-page story in rhyme, plus activities to define a moral, create a rhyming poem, and sequence and write the story, as well as two art projects. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Milkmaid and Her Pail (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable about the milkmaid who dreamed of what she would buy and learned the moral "don't count your chickens before they are hatched." The unit includes a two-page story and activities to write about the moral, make butter from cream, and create a daydream wheel. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Miller, the Son, and Their Donkey (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit presents the fable of how the miller went to sell his donkey and learned the moral "if you try to please everyone, you'll please no one." The unit includes a two-page fable and activities to write about the moral, create a storyboard with characters, and sequence how to grind wheat. (Search the term "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Proud Turkey (Skill Sharpeners: Reading)

This home-school reading unit contains a modern fable about a too-proud turkey followed by six student activities done at home to sharpen skills in comprehension (critical thinking, details, comparisons), vocabulary (word meanings, suffixes), and grammar (comparative/superlative adjectives, verbs). (Find more units at "Sharpeners/Reading 3.")

The Tortoise and the Hare (Aesop's Fables)

This Literature Pocket unit is based on Aesop's fable about the race between the rabbit and the tortoise with the moral that "slow and steady wins the race." The unit contains a two-page story, plus activities to define a moral, make a medal, describe the animals, and write a story about the race. (Search "Aesop's Fables" for other units.)

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Grade 3/Week 25)

This Daily Paragraph Editing unit on the cautionary tale of the boy who cried wolf too often contains four paragraphs that have errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and language use. Monday through Thursday, students correct the errors and check their answers. On Friday, they follow a prompt to create an original paragraph. The unit also includes proofreading marks and an editing checklist.

The Fox and the Crow

This one-page read-and-understand tale is a retelling of the fable of how the fox outwits the crow for a piece of cheese. The unit includes five reading skills activity pages on story details, word meanings, short vowel and "th" sounds, adding suffixes, and a verb word puzzle. (Find other units by searching "Read Stories 3.")

Aesop's Fables

Book project ideas, a poem, complete directions and patterns for making a fable book

The Grasshopper and the Ants

This Never-Bored unit contains a minibook of the fable of the Grasshopper and the Ants, as well as an activity that defines likenesses between the two kinds of insects.