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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Aesop's Fables

Book Title: Aesop’s Fables
Author(s): John Cech
Illustrator/Photographer/ Artist: Martin Jarrie
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Copyright Date: 2009
Genre: Folktale
Brief Annotation: This book is a retelling of the classic Aesop’s fables. These stories are beautifully retold for the next generation’s life lessons. The stories are short a sweet and use animals to show children how to make choices and the consequence of children’s decisions.
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this book a four, because the illustrations are cute and so are the fables.
Readers who will like this book: I think most kids will find some fables that they like in this book.
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins : Grand conversations (page 43) would be a great strategy for this book because each fable or several fables with similar morals could be a separate conversation, or the class could split up into groups and each group takes a different fable. If you choose the group strategy, split the class into small groups and have them read their fables in their groups.  Students write down main ideas or draw a picture that represents the moral. Have the class come back together and form a circle. Each group reads their fable and shares what they thought the main idea was. Then the group asks the class for other ideas they got from the fable. Teachers ask questions to guide the students. Conclude the conversation and continue to the next group.
Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: Have you ever learned a lesson from someone else’s mistake?
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