Reading Comprehension: Fables (Cover: Grades 4-5-6 Reproducible/Workbook: The Tortoise and the Hare)
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Slachman, Virginia
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1990
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This is a 24-page pamphlet, 8½ x 11, with pages that can be torn out and reproduced. The first four pages, paginated separately, are the teacher's guide, with answers to questions asked along the way. The very first page also lists the concepts and skills engaged by each of the sixteen fables presented here. These include such things as Information Recall, Drawing Conclusions, and Expressing Your Own Opinion. Fables begin on the second Page 1. The first two are fairly obvious Aesopic fables: The Wolf and the Horse and Hercules and the Wagoner. (Would children in the USA today speak of a wagoner?) The next choice is a surprise: Gesta Romanorum's The Archer and the Nightingale (2). Next is The Young Mouse by John Arkin, followed by The Stag and the Lion from The Hitopadesha. This latter story is sometimes told with a rabbit rather than a stag. The next surprise is Kriloff's Fortune's Visit (6), followed by Florian's The Husbandman and The Rats. Husbandman? There follow a number of Aesop's fables, interspersed with several more surprises: John Aikin (oops! Might this be the same man who was Arkin earlier?) with The Little Dog, Tolstoy with The Load, La Fontaine with The Cobbler and the Banker, and John Akin --a third spelling -- with The Goose and the Horse. I hope that proofreading is not one of the concepts and skills that this unit is supposed to teach! The tortoise on the cover raises a wonderful clenched fist in victory!
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6477 (Access ID)