The Fables

Discuss your understanding of a story; understand the importance of oral story telling; retell from memory a fable they have become familiar with and finally assess what the stories tell us about life in Ancient Greece.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To assess what the fables tell us about Ancient Greek life and thought.
• To read and discuss the fables.

Children will:

• Discuss their understanding of a story.
• Retell from memory a story they have become familiar with.
• Assess what the stories tell us about life in Ancient Greece.

• Analysing the fables
• Compare and contrast four different versions of the same fable

• The Orchard Book of Aesop's Fables by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark
• Web-enabled devices to be used in groups
• Sketchbooks
• Animations of Aesop's Fables by Hoopla Kidz on YouTube (search for Aesop Hooplakidz)

Selection of Aesop's Fables to read online from read.gov
Other versions of the fables from umass.edu
Audio versions of Aesop's Fables from bbc.co.uk
Other versions of the fables with audio and pictures from aesopfables.com
A collated list of the different versions of the fables from mythfolklore.net