Fabulist Aesop's Fables In The Classroom

Have we ever wondered whom Aesop was? What fables are? And how they are used in a classroom teaching? Teaching in a classroom is not an easy task, especially if it was a class of young children. Children have their own set of books or pieces of literature which are especially written for or by children and referred to as children's literature. Fable is a children's literature genre the characters of which are mainly animals or animated objects. Fables are simple folk stories which mainly didactic and caries a moral through its content. The Greek fabulist Aesop is known to the one whom most of the fables are referred to. Aesop according to Theda Detlor was a slave of war captured in Greece in the sixth century where he started to tell tales as a way of discussion (Theda.2001.teaching with Aesop's fables.p5). However, fables can be used in classroom for several reasons such as, their moralistic value or to teach an indirect lesson, also they are used as an entertaining method to amuse the child in class. Moreover, fables have different ways on how they can be used in classroom teaching.
To begin with, fables are short stories which are mainly didactic and caries a moral whether the moral was clearly stated or the reader has to figure it out through the fable's content. Fables are used in classroom as a teaching aid. First of all, they are used …show more content…
Some fables may show that lairs will regret lying and they will be punished or hard workers will get rewarded. Such qualities may reflect in the social behavior of children and they may transfer it in their real life situations. Fables can be used in classroom as a type of amusement, for example, some fables may include some sense of humor as if an animal dose something funny in the story, and the child may found it as source of