How Do I Teach 2nd Grade Fables?

Do you need activity and lesson ideas for your 2nd-grade fables unit?

You’re in luck!

I have some different ideas that I know you will LOVE incorporating into your 2nd grade fables unit.

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Incorporate read-alouds

Your 2nd-graders will LOVE hearing a short fable at the beginning of each reading block.

As you read these fables, ask students what the fables have in common.

What kind of characters?

What happens at the ending of each one?

I also have a list of my FAVORITE fable read-alouds that both you and your students will enjoy (All are Amazon Affiliate links below):

• Aesop’s Fables
• Aesop’s Fables 
• Aesop’s Forgotten Fables
• The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables
• Illustrated Stories from Aesop

Use reader’s theater

Reader’s theater is the perfect way to build confidence and fluency skills!

You can find reader’s theater scripts for fables on Google, Teachers Pay Teachers, or you can quickly write up your own!

Students will love acting out their parts – and hearing other students as well!

Fable color by number reading passages

These fable color by number worksheets are super fun and motivating!

First, students will read fable passages.

The passages included are:

• Belling the cat
• The ant and the grasshopper
• The boy who cried “wolf”
• The crow and the pitcher
• The dog and his reflection
• The fox and the grapes
• The lion and the mouse
• The tortoise and the hare
• The town mouse and the country mouse
• The wind and the sun

Next, they will answer reading comprehension questions (only 4 questions total, I cannot stand when a reading comprehension worksheets takes the whole reading block).

After answering each question, their answer choice will have a color next to it.

Students will color the picture based on their answer choices!

These are also super easy to grade… just look at the picture!

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Create your own fable

After students have been hearing read-alouds, acting out reader’s theater, and completing reading passages – students probably have a pretty good understanding of the components of a fable.

Time to show off their newfound fable knowledge!

Students will write their own fables (don’t forget the moral and to include animals!).

After they’re all done with their writings and illustrations, do an author share so that students can share their masterpieces with the class.

Then, bind the writings together to create a class book of fables!

Other fairy tale, fable, and folktale blog posts

Need MORE information on teaching fairy tales, fables, and/or folktales?

I have other blog posts on this topic that you’ll love!

Check out the following blog posts!

• The BEST way to teach fables, fairy tales, and folktales
• The BEST fairy tale, fable, myth, and folktale read alouds

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