The Crow and the Pitcher By: Aesop It was a sweltering, hot summer day. A crow, parched with thirst, came upon a pitcher of water. But the pitcher was only half full. The crow leaned and stretched and thrust out his beak as far as he could. No matter how hard he tried, he could not reach the water. All of a sudden, the crow had an idea. He picked up a pebble in his beak and dropped it into the water. The water level in the pitcher rose just a tiny bit. So he dropped in another pebble, then another, then one more. The crow continued doing this for a long time. Finally the water in the pitcher had risen high enough. The crow poked in his beak and drank to his heart's content! What is the lesson in The Crow and the Pitcher?

Working slowly pays off in the end.

The Crow and the Pitcher By: Aesop It was a sweltering, hot summer day. A crow, parched with thirst, came upon a pitcher of water. But the pitcher was only half full. The crow leaned and stretched and thrust out his beak as far as he could. No matter how hard he tried, he could not reach the water. All of a sudden, the crow had an idea. He picked up a pebble in his beak and dropped it into the water. The water level in the pitcher rose just a tiny bit. So he dropped in another pebble, then another, then one more. The crow continued doing this for a long time. Finally the water in the pitcher had risen high enough. The crow poked in his beak and drank to his heart's content! Which detail helped convey the lesson in this passage?

"The crow continued doing this for a long time."

"All of a sudden the crow had an idea."

"No matter how hard he tried, he could not reach the water."

an exaggerated or imaginary story

Fables, Folktales, Myths

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English

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5th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Hard

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CCSS

RL.4.9, RL.1.10, RL.8.9

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is the type of writing have a moral in the end

Folktales

Fables

Myths

Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Story that the characters can be heroes or gods

Fables

Folktales

Myths

None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

The central idea of a story

Central Idea

Theme

Hyperbole

Myths

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters

myth

legend

fable

folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A traditional or legendary story, that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

Legend

Myth

Fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A story from the past about a historical person who has been exaggerated and changed

myth

legend

fable

folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition.

myth

legend

fable

folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

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