Lesson Plan
Anansi and the Turtle and Me!
Anansi invites his friend Turtle to dinner at his house ... but does he treat him like a friend? In this reading comprehension lesson, your class practices questioning, retelling, and identifying the moral in "Anansi and the Turtle."
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to ask and answer questions about a text and recount details.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Gather students together and explain that today, they will read and listen to a story called Anansi and the Turtle.
- Ask the class if any of them have read this story before.
- Explain that Anansi and the Turtle is an African folktale, or a tale or legend passed along between people of a culture, usually through oral storytelling.