Fables Review

What is the central message (moral) of the story?

• Small things can be quite important in the long run.

• Greed will never bring you happiness.

• Family is the most important part of life.

• Be sure to always tell the truth at all times.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What happens FIRST in the story?

• The lion heard the mouse and woke up.

• The mouse saves the lion.

• The mouse ran across the lion waking him up.

• The lion traps the mouse.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

What is the BEST recounting of the ending.

• The mouse chews the net and frees the lion.

• The lion gets trapped.

• The mouse knows she helped her friend.

• The lion runs into the forest.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is the BEST description of the problem the mouse has in the beginning of the folktale?

• The lion is trapped.

• The mouse is trapped because she wakes up the lion.

• The mouse wants to get to the berry bushes.

• The mouse makes a friend.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which detail could you leave out when recounting this story?

• The mouse runs across the lion, waking him up.

• The lion lets the mouse go because she made him laugh.

• The lion had excellent hearing.

• The mouse saves the lions life, just like he saved hers.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Reread this sentence from paragraph 5:

A few days later, the lion became tangled in a net that hunters had placed in the forest.

What are ALL the nouns in this sentence?

• lion, net, hunters, forest, days

• tangled, lion, hunters

• net, lion, forest, hunters

• lion, hunters

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

Which sentence from the story helps the reader determine the central message (moral)?

• "The little mouse smiled, knowing she had helped her friend."

• "What could you, a little mouse, do for me, a mighty lion?"

• "The little mouse used her sharp teeth to chew as fast as she could."

• "You never know when you might need a friend?"

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

In the story, what happens right AFTER the lion gets trapped by the hunters?

• The mouse frees the lion by chewing a hole in the net.

• The mouse hears the lion and goes to help him.

• The lion gets freed from the net.

• The hunters take the lion.

Why does the lion let the mouse go?

• He wants a new friend.

• He decides he isn't hungry.

• The mouse made him laugh.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5