Compare Two Tellings of a Fable About a Turtle and a Hawk

Read the two stories back to back, then ask your child what stayed the same and what changed. For two tellings, compare the endings first, since that is where the lessons show. Check with the answer key.

Compare two tellings of a fable about a turtle or tortoise who cannot fly but helps Hawk in its own way. A fable is a short tale with talking animals, and each telling can change. Its lesson is what it teaches. The directions on the page read: Read Telling A and Telling B of the fable. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Use both tellings. Fill in chart boxes 1 to 6. Then, circle the best answer to questions 7 and 8. Then, answer question 9 on the 4 lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade compare and contrast, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with compare two stories. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

They look at the characters, the setting, what happens and what the characters learn. RL.3.9 asks 3rd graders to compare the themes, settings and plots of stories about the same or similar characters.

Folktales and fables were passed along by telling them aloud, so each telling can change a little. In Telling A of one tale, a bear trades fish for honey, and in Telling B, a girl builds a fence to keep a bear out of the hives. Children find what changed and whether the lesson stayed the same.

Each story or telling is about 95 to 140 words, and both fit on page one, so children can look back at either one while they work.

Yes. All 11 sheets have an answer key, with sample answers for the Venn diagram or the chart.

To compare is to tell how two things are alike. To contrast is to tell how they are different. A Venn diagram shows both, with what is alike in the middle and the differences in the outside parts.

In 3rd grade, children compare the themes, settings and plots of stories by the same author about the same or similar characters (RL.3.9). Keeping Pip or Captain Fluff in both stories makes it easier to see what changed from one story to the next. Six other sheets give two tellings of one folktale or fable, so children see how the same tale can change from one teller to the next.

They write three key points from Text A and three from Text B, answer questions about the texts, then write one fact found only in Text A and one found only in Text B. This is the RI.3.9 skill of comparing the most important points in two texts on the same topic.