Reading Enrichment Unit

Grade: 2
Focus Standard: ELAGSE2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse
cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Day 1
Standards:
ELAGSE2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELAGSE2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning
introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes
the action.
ELAGSE2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
ELAGSE2SL2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from written texts read aloud or
information presented orally or through other media.
AASL Standards:
1.1.2 – Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.

Objective:
Students will be able to retell the story in sequential order. Students will be able to identify the
moral of the fable.

Interactive Read Aloud:

The Lion and The Mouse

Lesson Procedures:
 Review the characteristics of fables.
 Explain to students that we will be reading an old fable this week written by Aesop. Remind
students that it is important to try to remember what happened in the beginning, middle, and
end.
 Show students the flow map we will be filling out to help us recall the events as well as the
vocabulary chart for unknown words. (The words mercy, insignificant, generously, savior,
meager, and good deed will already be on the chart for discussion after reading.)
 Read “The Lion and the Mouse” aloud from the book Aesop’s Fables a Signet Classic
 Discuss the book and what students think the moral/lesson of the story is.
 Have students identify the characters and setting and write at the top of the flow map.
 Discuss and fill out as a class the flow map retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the
story.
 Go through the vocabulary words on the chart and fill out the meaning of each. Reread the
part of the story where the vocabulary word was used and discuss the meaning of each and
possible synonyms for each.

Assessment:
 Teacher observation
 Flow map
  Vocabulary chart

Day 2
Standards:
*ELAGSE2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by
speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
ELAGSE2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELAGSE2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning
introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes
the action.
ELAGSE2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
AASL Standards:
1.1.2 – Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.

Objective:
Students will be able to retell the story in sequential order. Students will be able to identify the
moral of the fable. Students will understand the feeling of each character and will demonstrate
those feelings while reading aloud.

Shared Reading:
The Lion and The Mouse reader’s theater script from See Jane Teach on Teacher’s Pay Teachers

Lesson Procedures:
 Display the flow map and vocabulary chart from the previous day. Discuss the flow map and
retell the events of The Lion and the Mouse. Review the vocabulary words and why they are
important to the story.
 Use the vocabulary words to start a discussion of the two different characters by identifying
which character each word goes with.
 Explain to students that today they will become the characters from the story by reading aloud
one of the parts in a script. Display the script for all to see. Discuss the importance of using
expression when reading so that the listeners understand how the character is feeling.
 Pass out the script to everyone and have one half of the class highlight the lion’s part in the
script and have the other half highlight the mouse’s part.
 Do a shared reading of the whole script modeling how to read each character’s part with
expression and fluency.
 Break the class into pair of one lion and one mouse each and have them move to separate
areas in the room to practice the script. Walk around and monitor students as they are
reading. Model for students as needed a few lines from their character and have them repeat
the parts that were modeled.
 Come together as a class on the rug and allow each group to perform The Lion and the Mouse
for the class. Review speaking loudly and clearly with the class before beginning as well as
proper listening skills.
Assessment:
 Teacher observation
 Observation during student performance of reader’s theater script

Day 3
Standards:
*ELAGSE2RL9: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella
stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
ELAGSE2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELAGSE2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning
introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes
the action.
ELAGSE2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
AASL Standards:
1.1.2 – Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
1.1.7 – Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions,
main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.
2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.

Objective:
Students will compare and contrast two versions of the same story to find similarities and
differences.

Shared Reading:
The Lion and The Mouse by Aesop

Read Aloud:
The Lion and the Mouse read by Yemi Alade on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGVqLP3UwQ

Lesson Procedures:
 Show students a Venn diagram and review that they are used to compare and contrast two
things. Explain that today we will be listening to two different versions of The Lion and the
Mouse. We will read the original version by Aesop and we will listen to a version as told by
Yemi Alade. Then we will discuss how the stories are alike and how they are different.
 Remind students before reading that the purpose of a fable is to teach a lesson and that at the
end we will also have to decide if both versions of the story teach the same lesson.
 Reread the story The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop.
 Listen to the story The Lion and the Mouse as told by Alade on YouTube.
 After listening to both as students to think-pair-share with a partner and see if they can think
of at least two things that were the same and two things that were different between the
stories.
 After allowing students to discuss with their partner allow each group to share something they
came up with and tell where it should go on the Venn diagram.
 Work as a class to add as many ideas as possible to the Venn diagram.
 Conclude by discussing the moral from each story and discussing whether or not they are the
same.

Assessment:
 Teacher observation
 Venn diagram

Day 4
Standards:
*ELAGSE2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
*ELAGSE2W6: With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of tools to produce and
publish writing, including digital tools and collaboration with peers.
ELAGSE2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning
introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes
the action.
ELAGSE2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
AASL Standards:
1.1.2 – Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
1.1.7 – Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions,
main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.
1.2.3 – Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats.
3.2.1 Demonstrate leadership and confidence by presenting ideas
to others in both formal and informal situations.
3.1.3 Use writing and speaking skills to communicate new understandings effectively.

Objective:
Students will retell the story of The Lion and the Mouse telling the key events from the
beginning, middle, and end using dialogue. Students will identify the moral of the story.

Read Aloud:
The Lion and The Mouse by Aesop

Lesson Procedures:
 Review the story The Lion and the Mouse using the artifacts created the previous two days.
(Venn diagram, flow map, and vocabulary chart)
 Explain to students that they will be retelling the story on their own today using a Web 2.0
program called PowToon to create a comic strip of the events and moral.
 Model for students how to create a four box comic strip, how to add a background for the
setting, characters, and dialogue.
 Explain that they must use the first three boxes to show and tell what happened in the
beginning, middle, and end of the story. Each box may use either dialogue between the
characters or a text box to explain the events. The last box can also show the characters and a
background but it must explain the moral of the story.
 Show and explain to students the rubric on which they will be graded. Leave rubric up on the
screen for students to refer to while working.
 Break students into pairs and allow each group to use a Chromebook to work on their
PowToon comic strip.
 After all groups have created their comics they will share with the class by reading displaying
their comic on the Smart Board and explaining each part of their comic to the class.

Assessment:
 Teacher observation
 Rubric for ToonDoo comic and presentation

ToonDoo Rubric

1 2 3
Comic retells the Comic has only 1 of Comic has 2 of the 3 Comic has all 3 parts
beginning, middle, the 3 parts. parts. and each is clearly
and end of the fable. explained.
No moral is stated. Comic states the Comic states the
Comic explains the moral but sentence moral in a clear and
moral of the fable. has errors. easy to understand
way.
Pictures do not show Pictures show either Picture show the
Pictures the characters or the characters or characters and
setting. setting but not both. setting.
Voice is quiet, hard All pictures are All pictures are
Presentation is clear
to understand, and all explained but voice is explained in a clear,
and comic is well
pictures are not quiet or hard to loud, easy to
explained.
explained. understand. understand manner.

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