Town Mouse and Country Mouse: Fable Reading Passage for ESL

by English with Imagination

Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD

Subjects: ela,reading,englishSecondLanguage,foundationalSkills,fluency,literature,litReadingComprehension

Grades: 2,3,4,5,6

Description: A small mouse travels far from home. What will he find? This is a retelling of Aesop's classic fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse", also known as "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse". Children can listen as they read along with this ebook featuring audio. The story is adapted for English learners and illustrated with real photos that will capture children's imaginations. Your class will love seeing the cute little mice and reading about their adventures! Your students will develop fluency and vocabulary as they listen and read. You can make the story available in learning centers, project it on the whiteboard for whole-class instruction or assign it for children to practice reading at home. The theme of this timeless story supports social-emotional learning and lends itself well to conversations about friendship, diversity, and values. The storybook contains images and vocabulary for talking about mealtimes and travel, which makes it useful for an ESL lesson reviewing these language points. I wrote this story for my students, who are learning English as a foreign language in elementary school. I wanted some ebooks that I could send them to practice reading at home. I found ebooks to buy for my classroom, but none that I could send to families. So I wrote some myself! Meets the following Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA Reading Literature: .RL.3.2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales and myths from diverse cultures.