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Rabbit Ears Productions

37 episodes

Rabbit Ears Productions turned classic Western literature into beautifully illustrated half-hour films, each read by a famous narrator over an original commissioned score. This Storybook Classics collection gathers the fairy tales, fables, and American legends of that strand: Hans Christian Andersen (The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes), the Brothers Grimm, Beatrix Potter, Kipling's Just So stories, and homegrown tall tales from Paul Bunyan to John Henry and Follow the Drinking Gourd. Teachers reach for these to build reading skills like retelling a folktale, finding its central message, and comparing versions, with a few titles that also open a window on American history. Vetted for grades K to 6.

what this series covers

What Rabbit Ears Productions covers

37 episodes in the library, tagged for K–6th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA) and Social Studies. Between them they line up with 18 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

K: 9
1st: 21
2nd: 32
3rd: 37
4th: 31
5th: 17
6th: 5

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 37
Social Studies: 13

Common Core — ELA 15

RL.2.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
RL.3.3Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.2Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details.
RL.2.9Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
RL.2.1Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RL.1.2Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

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RL.4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
RL.4.3Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
RL.1.9Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
RL.3.6Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
RL.K.9With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
RL.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.4Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
RL.2.4Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Social Studies (C3 / NCSS) 3

D2.Geo.10.3-5Explain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.
D2.His.3.3-5Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities.
D2.His.2.3-5Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.

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