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“I have borrowed a book of fables from the library. Let's read it together ,” Bonnie said to Alan.

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Mousedeer and the Big Hole

Once ,there lived a mousedeer in the forest.

One day,Mousedeer fell into a big hole. “Oh dear !” he thought . “How will ever get out?”

Just then, Wild Boar came by.

“Hurry up !”shouted Mousedeer . “The sky is about to fall

on us! Quickly jump into this hole!”

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Wild Boar jumped into the hole.

Not long after, Buffalo came by.

“Hurry up!" shouted mousedeer again. “jump into this hole! The shy is about to fall on us!”

Buffalo jumped into the hole too. He landed on Wild Boar.

Barking Deer hear all the noise. He looked into the hole.“what are all of you doing?" he ask.

“Oh!”said Mousedeer. “The sky is about to fall on us! Jump into this hole and you will be safe .”

Barking Deer quickly jumped into the hole too.

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“ Now, let me climb up and see what is happening,” said Mousedeer. He climbed up onto Wild Boar, then onto Buffalo and Barking Deer. With a skip and a hop, he was out of the hole.

After a while, Barking Deer called out, ”what’ s happening, Mousedeer?”

There was no reply! That tricky Mousedeer was nowhere to be seen!

Bonnie and Alan talked about the characters in the fable they had just read.

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Buffalo was too trusting.

Mousedeer was

cunning!

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helpful.

But they were also silly to do what

Mousedeer asked without thinking.

Mousedeer was crafty. He managed to trick Buffalo and

the others.

Mousedeer was clever but it was wrong of him to trick

the other animals.

“Let’s read another fable,” said Bonnie.

Book p.63Book p.63The Fox and the Crow

One fine day, a sly fox saw a crow fly past. Crow settled on the branch of a tree. She had a piece of delicious cheese in her beak.

Fox was hungry and wanted the cheese for himself. He walked to the foot of the tree.

“Dear mistress Crow,” Fox said in the kindest and the softest voice. “how fine you look today! You have the shiniest feathers and the brightest eyes I have ever seen. You are the most beautiful bird in the forest. I am sure your voice is the sweetest I have ever heard. Sing me just one sweet song to prove it, and I will call you ‘Queen of all the birds.

The happy crow opened her beak to caw. The cheese fell to the ground where it was snapped up by Fox.

“Here’s some advice in exchange for your cheese,: Fox said to the foolish crow. “Do not trust flatterers!”

We use adjectives to describe things. Adjectives also help us to compare people, places, animals or

things.

The tiger was crafty. But the fox was craftier than the tiger

because he could trick the tiger. The mousedeer was the craftiest of all because he could trick everyone.

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Many adjectives that compare three or more people, places, animals or things end in ‘est’. We add ‘the’ before this form of the adjective.

sweet sweeter (than) the sweetestcrafty craftier (than) the craftiestbig bigger (than) the biggest

We use ‘more’ and ’most’ when we use some adjectives to compare.

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beautiful more beautiful (than) the most beautifulExciting more exciting (than) the most exciting

Some adjectives change altogether when we use them to compare.

good better (than) the bestbad worse (than) the worstlittle less (than) the leastmuch / many more (than) the most

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The little Mousedeer and the Big Hole A fable has a title.

The settingIn the forest

The writer tells you where the story takes place.

The charactersMousedeer BuffaloWild boar Barking Deer

The writer tells you who is in the story. The writer uses animal Names for the characters. The writer may also tell you what the characters are like--- ‘tricky Mousedeer’.

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The problem Mousedeer falls into the hole.

Something happens among the animals. This sets the scene for the lesson or moral.

The actionMousedeer gets the other animals to jump in one by one. Then, he climbs over them to get out of the big hole.

One or more of the characters actfoolishly or cunningly. This becomes the lesson.

The moralDon’t act without thinking.

The moral tells the lesson behind the Fable. In some fables, the writer may tell us what the moral is. In others, The writer may want us to think about it ourselves.

“let’s write our own fable,” Bonnie said to Alan. This was how Bonnie and Alan planned their fable.

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First, they thought about the moral they wanted to teach and what it meant.

Let’s use ‘little friends may prove to

be great friends’.

This saying tells us not to look down upon those who are small or weak.

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A big animal is proud of his strength and thinks it will keep him safe. He

makes fun of little animals.

A small animal will make him change his mind.

Then, they decided on the animal characters by thinking about how certain

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Hippos are big and lazy---they just roll about in the mud all

day.

Little birds are tiny but swift and active. They also like to rest on hippos.

Alan and Bonnie decided on the setting of the fable.

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Hippos and the little birds both like to send time in the

river.

Let’s set our fable in a river in a thick

forest.

Alan and Bonnie decided what the characters were going to do in the fable to teach the readers the moral.

After planning their fable, Bonnie and Alan decided to write a draft of their

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When we write our draft, we should:

• Write down our ideas quickly but neatly.

• use different types of verbs to make our fable more interesting.

•use different action verbs to show what happens and what the characters do. •use adjectives to describe the characters or the setting.

•use quotation marks to show when words are spoken by the characters.

After they wrote a draft of their fable, they wanted to edit their fable.

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When we edit our fable, we will:• check to make sure our story makes sense.

• check that we have used words and phrases that show the order in which the events take place.

• check to make sure we have said what we wanted to say.

• check to see if we can make our story better.

• check the spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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