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Fantastic Fables: 5 W's
In this lesson, students use highlighters, graphic organizers, and a classic fable to exercise their understanding of key details and main idea in a text. They will use manipulatives to promote visual and kinetic learning styles.
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Learning Objectives
After completing this lesson, students will be able to successfully ask and answer the “who, what, when, where and why” of a given story.
Introduction
(5 minutes)
- Hold up or project an image of a short fiction book that your class has read as a whole group.
- Display an index card with the phrase “5 W’s” written on it.
- Ask your class who was in the story, what they were doing or trying to accomplish, when did it all take place, where and why.
- Have them turn to their nearest partner and share their answers to these questions.