Fables and Folktales Activity
Using Fables and Folktales Activity,students recount fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
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How to teach Summarizing
Using Fables and Folktales Activity,students recount fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Being able determine the summarize text that you are reading helps your students understand what they have read. This activity will help your student to make sure that they retell a full story.
Choose a Fable or Folktale. Then, choose an activity card to help guide discussion about the story.
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If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about summarizing.
Use this Note Taking and Summarizing Graphic Organizer as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this activity by reading a short book. Next, students share what happened first, next, then, and finally. Then, have students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students share their summary of their text. Once finished, students continue practicing reading their own texts and summarizing.
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