Class Topic Level Skills Year 6 The Clever

Class Topic Level Skills : Year 6 : The Clever Katya (English Year 6 textbook pg. 73) : Average : 3. 3. 3 Read and understand simple paragraphs by: - answering comprehension questions. 3. 6. 1 Give words opposite in meaning. 3. 8. 4 Read and understand cause and effect relationships. 3. 9. 1 Read and give details about the places in the story. 3. 9. 5 Read and predict outcomes. Time : 60 minutes

Activity : Pre-reading: Activity A 1. Teacher divides the pupils into groups of four. Each group will get a set of jigsaw puzzle where they have to join them. (picture of Katya) 2. Teacher asks pupils to describe the picture.

Activity B 1. Teacher provides a list of phrases to describe the woman in the picture. Pupils tick ( √) the suitable phrases to describe her. 2. Exemplar 1 3. Tick the correct phrases to describe the woman in the picture. 4. 1. The woman looks neat and tidy. 2. The woman looks messy. 3. She is baking a cake. 4. She is kneading the dough. 5. She is hardworking. 6. She is lazy. 7. She is wearing an apron. 8. She is wearing a uniform. ( ( ( ( ) ) ) )

While-reading First Reading ( Predict outcomes) 1. Teacher asks pupils to do silent reading. 2. Teacher writes questions on the board based on each paragraph. 3. Teacher asks pupils to answer the questions after reading each paragraph.

Activity A Answer these questions. 1. Do you think the Czar will meet the farmer’s daughter? (Paragraph 1) There was once a farmer who had a beautiful and clever daughter named Katya. One day, the farmer met the Czar of Russia who asked him for some bread. The Czar loved the tasty bread and wanted to know who had made it. The farmer then told the Czar about his wonderful daughter. The Czar always thought that he was the cleverest person in Russia.

2. What is the one thing that Katya wants the most? (paragraph 2) The Czar gave Katya three difficult tests to prove that she was clever. Katya cleverly solved all of them. The Czar fell in love with Katya and married her. Katya made the Czar promise her one thing. If he gets unhappy with her and asks her to leave the palace, she should be allowed to take the one thing she loves the most in the palace. He agreed.

3. Katya brought the Czar to her father’s house… A. in a hot-air balloon. B. in a train. C. in a horse cart. (paragraph 3) One day, the Czar was angry. He asked Katya to leave the palace and return to her father’s house. When the Czar was sleeping, Katya put him in a chest. She took the chest to her father’s house. Her father was shocked when he saw the Czar inside the chest. When the Czar woke up, he was angry but Katya reminded him of his promise. She said she loved him the most in the palace. That made the Czar very happy indeed because he knew that Katya really loved him very much and not his riches.

Second Reading ( Opposite in meaning) 1. Teacher discusses the difficult words with the pupils. 2. In pairs, pupils match the correct antonyms in the column. Activity B Match the words in column A with column B. Column A Column B beautiful calm unhappy tasteless tasty ugly love happy angry hate

Third Reading ( Cause and Effect) • • Teacher discusses the content briefly with the pupils. Teacher asks the pupils to complete the cause and effect statements. Activity C Complete the statements below. • The bread was tasty so the Czar …. • Katya put the Czar in the chest because … • The Czar was very happy because …

Post-reading 1. Pupils get into their groups and discuss the comprehension questions. 2. Teacher gets pupils to answer the questions. 3. Teacher discusses the answers with the pupils. Activity A Answer the questions below: 1. Name three characters in the story. (specific detail) i. _____ iii. _____ 2. The Czar fell in love with Katya so …(cause and effect) A. he married her. B. he punished her. C. he killed her. 3. The phrase “The Czar always thought that he was the cleverest person in Russia. ” ( paragraph 2 ) can best be describe as … ( draw conclusion) A. He was a proud person. B. He was a humble person. C. He was a wicked person.

4. Tick ( √) true or false. ( inferring) Katya was wiser than the Czar. True ( ) False ( ) 5. In the end, Katya and the Czar …( predict outcome) A. lived in the farm. B. lived happily ever after. ACTIVITY B (Closure ) 1. Teacher gives some words to each group in a box. (focusing on moral values) 2. Teacher instructs them to form a correct sentence. The sentence would be We should be honest and humble like Katya. We should not be proud like the Czar. We should be hardworking as the farmer.