How to Create and write a Fable

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 5th-6th Grade

Description:

The world is changing so rapidly and it is our responsibility as educators to instill in our students responsibility, moral and ethical values, and a sense of appropriate interaction among each other. This can be accomplished by introducing social science concepts in psychology, sociology and geography in an inter-disciplinary manner by the use of children's literature. This will be accomplished by having fables read to the children and then having them create their own.

Goals & Objectives:

Instructional Goals:

1. The students will be able to successfully employ proper research methods.
   
2. The students will be able to demonstrate the use of better communications among diverse cultures.
   
3. The student will become familiar with the fundamental nature of a fable.
   
4. Students will improve their public speaking skills by sharing their fables aloud with the class.

Learning Objectives:

1. Students will be able to highlight the key elements of a fable and create and construct an innovative fable story from scratch with the use of resources such as books, internet, and interviews.
2. Students will be able to formulate associations with other ethical and moral beliefs by incorporating them into their fable stories based on their research.
3. Students will be able to depict a scene from their fable by creating an original poster.

Motivational Goals:

1. Build confidence in ability to write a story.
2. Generate interest in moral and ethical issues and provide relevance to the student’s personal experience.

Materials:

See attached lesson plan in Supporting Files

Procedures:

See attached lesson plan in Supporting Files

Assessment:

See attached lesson plan in Supporting Files

Supporting Files:

• Fable_IMPACT_Lesson_Plan.doc
  Complete motivational lesson plan

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Formulates questions based on information needs.

Evaluates information critically and competently.

• Determines accuracy, relevance and comprehensiveness.
• Identifies inaccurate and misleading information.

Uses information accurately and creatively

• Integrates new information into one's own knowledge.
• Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats

Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

• Respects the principles of intellectual freedom.
• Uses information technology responsibly.

Participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

• Shares knowledge and information with others.
• Respects others' ideas and backgrounds and acknowledges their contributions.
• Collaborates with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to seek their solutions.
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

National Content Standards (K-12)

Writing

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Reading

• Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes