After printing this single sheet in duplex (front and back), a single cut and a pair of staples turns it into a mini booklet that can be read, coloured, and enjoyed by your students, with 6 modernised versions of Aesop’s famous fables. It is a part of a larger fables unit for students, where they learn to read for the moral lesson, in both ancient and modern examples, before constructing their own fable.
Recognise similar storylines, ideas and relationships in different contexts in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements