🐜 Fable Time 3: The Ant's Plan

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🐜 The Ant's Plan

All summer, an ant carried seeds to her home.

A cricket played music and laughed. "Why work so hard?"

When winter came, the ant had plenty to eat.

The cricket was hungry and cold.

The ant shared a little food, and the cricket promised to plan ahead next year.

A fable is a short story, often with talking animals, that teaches a lesson.

1.Who are the characters?

2.Do the animals talk? yesno

3. What is the lesson? Circle it.

Plan ahead for what you will need.

Working together is better than fighting.

Kindness comes back to you.

Answer key: lesson: Plan ahead for what you will need.

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About this kindergarten & grade 1 worksheet

Free fable reading printable for K & Grade 1 (The Ant's Plan): read the original fable “The Ant's Plan”, find the talking animals and choose the lesson. Skill: Begins to understand fables, stories and legends (first-grade readiness). Level: Kindergarten & Grade 1 — also great for Reception / EYFS (UK) and Foundation (Australia).

For teachers: skills & standards

CCSS RL.1.2: Retell stories, including key details, and show the central message
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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It is designed for Kindergarten & Grade 1 (ages 5–7), but use it with any child who is ready.

What skills does it build?

Begins to understand fables, stories and legends (first-grade readiness).

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Fable Time 1: The Turtle and the Rabbit Who Shared · Fable Time 2: The Proud Peacock · Fable Time 4: The Mouse and the Elephant · Fable Time 5: The Greedy Crow · Fable Time 6: The Fox Who Told the Truth · Fable Time 7: The Two Goats on the Bridge · Fable Time 8: The Bee Who Kept Trying · Fable Time 9: The Lion and the Lost Cub · Fable Time 10: The Squirrel Who Shared the Tree

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