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Students will review all vocabulary prior to reading. Students will create a KWL and use questions to guide their reading of The Ant and The Grasshopper.

1) Create a KWL based on story title, cover photo, and blurb.
2) Review and define vocabulary words as a class, paying close attention and placing value on “preparedness.”
3) Discuss possible contexts vocabulary words may appear in story. Why are these words important? What do we think their purpose will be in the story?
4) Share KWL content and questions.
5) Ask students if they have ever planned for something that someone who did not plan for or sacrifice for got to enjoy; connect new story to The Little Red Hen or the Squirrels Who Squabbled. How do these stories make us feel?
6) Read the picture book together and re-ask questions about characters’ and students’ experiences. Can we build a bridge between our experiences and those events that transpired in the book?
7) Ask students to compare the traits of two characters from the story and to come up with adjectives that describe the main characters in a T chart.
8) Looking at their lists, ask students to evaluate whether either of the characters are likable based on their traits: what makes them so; if not, what makes them unlikable?
9) Of the two characters, who are you most like, and why?

Exit Ticket: Reflection
Write 2-3 sentences explaining what you think is meant by the saying “Luck favors the prepared.”
 
Day Two: Read through the Aesop Fable as a class once. Read again and Physically Highlight vocabulary from list, stopping to examine context clues that support their definitions. [Assign Individual paragraphs to students upon second read aloud]… In a different highlighter color, ask students to embolden places where their KWL questions are answered. Fill in L column. Create a list of adjectives describing two main characters of Aesop’s Fables.
Begin a venn map of the two main characters, comparing traits, quotes, and activities. How do these compare with the first venn exercise? Evaluate: is what happened to either character fair?

Day Three: Going Back to the Text
What is the text structure of a Fable? How does the story unfold? Where/How can I find or determine the theme? How are theme and moral connected? What is the main problem or dilemma of the story? Where/how do I know if it has been resolved? Do we know from whose perspective the story is told? What impact should that have on our interpretation of events? Why does that matter in a story with a moral lesson?

Day Four: Review of past lessons and mini quiz on Fable(s).