Fables Lesson Plan

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

PROFESSIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAM
LESSON PLAN FORMAT
Teacher Candidate: Kaitlyn Groff Date:4/13/2021 Time: Am and PM

Cooperating Teacher: Miss Stanek Coop. Initials: DS
Group Size: 22 Grade Level: 4th
Subject or Topic: ELA
STANDARD: (Common Core):
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):

● Students will be able to identify the following characteristics of a fable:
○ 1. short stories
○ 2. characters are talking animals (personification)
○ 3. purpose is to teach a lesson/moral.
● Students will understand and will be able to explain the lesson/moral of specific fables
using details from the text.
II. Assessment/Evaluation plan -

Google Form answering tortoise and hare questions.
III. Instructional Materials:

ChromeBooks.
Worksheet.
IV. Subject Matter/ Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea, outline of additional
content):
Today our BIG idea will focus on a genre of literature. This genre falls under the fiction
category and is similar to fairy tales and folktales. Any predictions as to what it is? (Fables).
Fables have special characteristics that make them different from other fiction stories
V. Implementation:
A. Introduction –
DAY 1
Direct Instruction:
● I am going to read a fable titled “The Hare and the tortoise” and while I am reading I
want you to think about the length of the story, the characters, and the purpose/ lesson of
this story. After reading the story prompt the students with questions:
1. What did you notice about the length of this story? (short)
2. Who were the characters? (Tortoise and Hare)
3. Did the tortoise and the hare have human characteristics? (Yes) Can you give me a few
examples? (They could talk, run emotion). This is called “personification” when animals have
feelings and characteristics that people have.
4. Was there a purpose to this story or a lesson learned? (Yes) What was the lesson (also
called moral)? (The race is not always swift).
B. Development –
● Slideshow
○ S1: Introduce fables
○ S2: Some other fables you may have heard of
○ S3: Using what we learned last week to enforce what we are learning.
○
Guided Practice
1. In groups of 4 (I have put the students into groups prior to the lesson) the students will
read “The Lion and the Mouse” using a reader’s theater script found on Teachers Pay Teachers.
After reading through the story their task will be to decide together who the characters were,
what the problem was, and what the lesson from this fable is.
2.Each student has been assigned a role by me prior to the lesson, so that deciding who
gets to be what character/narrator is not an issue (I will tell the students that if they have time in
their groups they can change roles and read through the story again).
3.Walk around to groups to assess how they are working in their groups and once they
have read the story I will prompt them with questions about the story.
C. Closure –
1. Bring all the groups back together to discuss the fable, “The Lion and the Mouse”.
Prompt the following questions: How do we know this story is a fable? Who are the characters?
What is the moral/lesson?
2.Allow each group to get up and perform the reader’s theater.
3.Can you think of any stories or movies you have watched that remind you of fables
because they taught a lesson? (allow students time to think on this and share) IF THERE IS
TIME
4. If you wrote a fable what would you want the lesson learned to be?
5.What was our BIG idea today? (Fables) What are the three characteristics of fables?
(talking animal characters, short in length, teach a lesson/moral)
Independent Practice:
1. As a class we will watch one of Aesop’s Fables (“The Tortoise and the Hare”) on
Discovery Education. The video is 2 minutes 17 seconds in length.
2. I will pause the video before they reveal what the moral of the story was.
3. I will then have the students log into www.infuselearning.com to take a short post
assessment on fables and specifically “The Tortoise and the Hare”. The Room ID to enter the
quiz is 37156. A paper copy of the assessment will be given to students who are unable to log in
due to technical difficulties.
DAY 2
● Read the Fable Wolf and Crane
DAY 3
● Read The Plain Duck and the Swan.
D. Accommodations / Differentiation -
VI. Reflective Response:
A. Report of Students’ Performance in Terms of States Objectives (Reflection on student

performance written after lesson is taught, includes remediation for students who failed to
meet acceptable level of achievement)
B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught. Reflective answers to

questions recorded after lesson is taught.)
VII. Resources (in APA format):

http://read.gov/aesop/025.html
Discovery Education Video Segment: “The Tortoise and the Hare”
Fables “The Tortoise and the Hare”
Name:
1. Please number the following events in order from what happened first to what happened last
in “The Tortoise and the Hare”: (1 is what happened first)
The Hare stopped to take a nap.
The Tortoise passed the Hare.
The Hare challenged the Tortoise to a race.
The Tortoise beat the Hare to the finish line.
The Hare was far ahead of the Tortoise.
2. The main characters in “The Tortoise and the Hare” are a turtle and a rabbit. Circle if this is:
True OR False
3. The characters in most fables are:

a.) Adults
b.) Dogs
c.) Animals
d.) Children
4. Fables are very long stories that tell a lesson. Circle if this is: True OR False
5. The lesson in the story “The Tortoise and the Hare” is:
a.) Slow and steady wins the race
b.) It is important to be fast at everything you do.
c.) In a race, never take a nap.

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KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Teacher Candidate: Kaitlyn Groff Date:4/13/2021 Time: Am and PM

STANDARD: (Common Core):

I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):

II. Assessment/Evaluation plan -

III. Instructional Materials:

VI. Reflective Response:

A. Report of Students’ Performance in Terms of States Objectives (Reflection on student

B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught. Reflective answers to

VII. Resources (in APA format):

3. The characters in most fables are:

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