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Fox and the Crow
This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to read and answer comprehension questions to explore the sequence of events and characters in a fable story that presents a moral lesson for the reader to learn and apply to their own lives.
The class can select and write a similar narrative story based on the fable about how the fox could trick some other animals into stealing their food.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to read and answer comprehension questions to explore the sequence of events and characters in a fable story that presents a moral lesson for the reader to learn and apply to their own lives
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the sequence of narrative events and moral lesson that are part of a story fable and a set of differentiated worksheets to answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a fable with animals as the main characters that teach the reader a lesson
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the format and content of a fable with animals as the main characters that teach the reader a lesson.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the sequence of events and moral lessons that are presented in different fables with animals as the main characters. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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