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The Boy Who Cried Wolf Lesson Plans
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is the story of a young shepherd. Growing bored with his work, he shouts "Wolf!" to make the townspeople come running. He laughs at them and at their anger when they find he has tricked them. … -
The Blind Men and the Elephant Lesson Plans
The story of the blind men and the elephant is a simple one: a group of unsighted men have their first encounter with an elephant. Since they approach the beast from different perspectives, they all end up with differe… -
The Snow Queen Lesson Plans
The Snow Queen is a lesser-known tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It's a collection of stories, really. The first is about a mirror made by an evil sprite, which shows everything reflected in it at its worst. This mirror… -
Lesson Plans for The Tortoise and the Hare
"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's fables, also done by Jean de La Fontaine.You can read it, and admire one of Rackham's illustrations for it, here. A shorter and easier version is online here. Here's a bri… -
Lesson Plans for Telling Time
It's harder for students to learn to tell time with analog clocks than it used to be, simply because they don't see them very often. What's more, kids need to learn to tell time with digital clocks as well as analog cloc… -
Alice in Wonderland Lesson Plans
Lewis Carroll's (Charles Lutwidge Dodson was the author's real name) classic fantasy is a perennial favorite, and for good reason. In the story, Alice falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in a marvelous world full of fr… -
Five (or Seven) Chinese Brothers Lesson Plan
"The Five Chinese Brothers" was written by Claire Huchet Bishop in 1938. While it is generally described as a Chinese folktale, I haven't found any earlier collections of it. The story begins, "Once upon a time, there w… -
The Princess on the Glass Hill Lesson Plans
"The Princess on the Glass Hill" is one of the more obscure fairy tales, but the image of the suitors trying to get up the glass hill to the princess is familiar to most of us. Since our state frameworks mandate the use… -
The Big Turnip Lesson Plans
The story of the big turnip has various different characters, depending who is telling it, but the basic plot is always the same: there is a big turnip in the ground, too big for one person or animal to pull up. The fir… -
The Emperor's New Clothes Lesson Plans
"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Here is another translation, with more challenging vocabulary. Here is a simpler one. You can hear it read aloud here. At that last site, there is a cho…
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