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📖 2nd Grade · ELARL.2.2Unit 6: Fables & folktales from many cultures

What is a fable?

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🎯 Objective: Students learn the features of fables.

Lesson outline

  1. Read “The Tortoise and the Hare”.
  2. Features chart: animal characters, short, a moral.
  3. Discuss the moral.
  4. Exit: state the moral.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.2.2

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recount fables and folktales and determine their central message
  • Compare versions of the same story

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Story structure📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Fables & folktales from many cultures”

  1. What is a fable?
  2. Central message
  3. Folktales around the world
  4. Compare two versions
  5. Write a fable

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