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(Fable) Book Review #4 EDU 307

 The Grasshopper and The Ants which is an Aesop's Fables Series is great for elementary students because of the message that it promotes and vocabulary focus that is implemented into the book. The best way to teach vocabulary is to give the word context so that the definition makes more sense to the student. This book is also accompanied by a video which contains different images throughout the book, this can be beneficial to younger elementary students who are still interested in pictures books. This will capture the students much more easily, it is also nice because the teacher does not have to read it and can focus on pointing out things throughout the book by simply pausing it. 


The book starts off with a grasshopper noticing  bunch of ants who are carrying seeds through the field. The grasshopper then asked the ants where they were going with the seeds; one of the ants replied and said that they were taking the ants to their nest. The ant told the grasshopper that it should start storing food for the winter but instead the grasshopper said "why worry about the winter?". Basically, the grasshopper was procrastinating and did not want to worry about that. The grasshopper did nothing throughout the entire spring to prepare for the winter time where food would not be readily available. Then throughout the entire summer the grasshopper did nothing to prepare for the winter. By the end of the winter, the grasshopper learned an important moral which is pointed out at the end. The book says that the moral of the story is to "Work today for what you will need tomorrow."


I would give this book a 5/5 because of the effectiveness that it has in such a short amount of time. The vocabulary, audio and visuals all make the book much more effective. 

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