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LITERATURE COMPONENT

A POEMS
1. At the Playground by Brian Moses

When we went to the playground

I swung on the swings,
I slid on the slide,
I hung from the rings.
I raced over to Mum
for a kiss and a cuddle,
but as we were leaving,
I fell in a puddle!

Practice 1
Answer the following questions.
1. Which playground equipment did the poet use while at the playground?
The poet used .
2. How do you think the poet looked as he/she went home with his/her mother?
Why? HOTS Analysis

Practice 2
Complete the circle map with things you can do at the playground.

i-THINK

THINGS I CAN
DO AT THE
PLAYGROUND

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2. Clap Your Hands by Pam Gidney

Clap your hands

Above your head –
Wake up, wake up,
Sleepyhead.
Clap your hands
Behind your back.
Make a click
And then a clack.
Clap your hands
From side to side.
Hold your arms out
Very wide.
Clap hands fast
With your best friend.
Now our game
Is at an end!

Practice 1
Answer the following questions.
1. Why is the poet asking his/her best friend to clap hands? HOTS Analysis

The poet does this because .

2. Number the following phrases in the order in which the poet claps.

with a best friend

above the head

from side to side

behind the back

Practice 2
Match the phrases in List A with the phrases in List B.

List A List B

1. In the poem, the poet suggests you should clap your hands
behind your back.
2. A person who cannot seem to a way to stay awake.
stay awake
3. If you want to make a click you clap your hands fast with
and clack, your best friend.
4. The game ends when is a sleepyhead.

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3. Woodpecker by Brenda Williams

Woodpecker, woodpecker
Tapping at the tree
Woodpecker, woodpecker
Can’t you see?
Woodpecker, woodpecker
You can’t win
You can knock all day
But there’s no one in!

Practice 1
Answer the following questions.
1. The word tapping can be replaced with …

knocking ✓
hitting
drumming

2. The word you refers to …

the poet
the tree
the woodpecker ✓

3. How did the woodpecker tap at the tree? HOTS Application

The woodpecker tapped at the tree using .

Practice 2
Read the statements and write ‘True’ or ‘False’.

1. The woodpecker was in a tree.

2. The woodpecker was tapping continuously.

3. The woodpecker sat in the tree quietly.

4. The sound of the tapping is similar to the sound of someone

knocking on the door.

5. The woodpecker stopped tapping at the tree when it got dark.

6. The woodpecker is a bird.

7. The poet keeps a woodpecker as her pet.

8. The woodpecker knocks on the door of the poet’s house.

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4. Holiday Memories by June Crebbin

When I was on holiday, I sailed across the ocean,

I went to Timbuktu, I drove a Greyhound bus,
I wrestled with a jaguar I rode across the desert
And boxed a kangaroo. On a hippopotamus.

I journeyed into jungles, I heard a mermaid singing,

I swam the deepest sea, I fought a killer shark,
I climbed the highest mountain I grappled with a Grizzly
And a monkey-puzzle tree. In a wild Safari Park.

I chatted to a seagull, I chased a band of pirates

I met a big baboon, Completely round the bend.
I floated on a moonbeam And now the summer’s over
Until I reached the moon. And so is this – THE END.

I visited the planets,

I lit up all the stars,
I gossiped to a parrot
Travelling to Mars.

Practice 1
Complete the brace map with information from the poem.

i-THINK • Timbuktu
• (1)
• (2)
• (3)
• moon
Places visited
• (4)
• (5)
• (6)
THE POET’S • (7)
HOLIDAY • wild Safari Park
MEMORIES
• jaguar
• (8)
• (9)
Animals met • (10)
• parrot
• (11)
• (12)
• grizzly bear

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5. Sand Castle by J. Patrick Lewis

I built a house
One afternoon
With bucket, cup,
And fork and spoon,

Then scooped a shovel-

ful of shore
On top to add
The second floor.

But when the fingers

Of the sea
Reached up and waved
A wave to me,

It tumbled down
Like dominoes
And disappeared
Between my toes.

Practice 1
Complete the brace map about the house.

i-THINK

Material • (1)

• (2)
• (3)
THE POET’S Tools • (4)
HOUSE
• (5)
• (6)

Location • (7)

Practice 2
Answer the following questions.
1. When did the poet build his house?
He built it .

2. How many floors does the house have?

The house .

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Practice 3
Tick (✓) the correct answers.
1. “It tumbled down…”. The word it refers to the …

sea shore

high waves

house made of sand ✓

2. What happened at the end of the poem?

The poet’s house was crushed by the sea waves. ✓

The poet fell down.

The poet accidentally stepped on his house.

6. Grandma’s House by Pamela Mordecai

Grandma’s house is very small

just a bedroom and a hall

and a parlour full of flowers

lots of clocks to tell the hours

and a kitchen with a cat

fast asleep upon a mat

and a bathroom cool and white

full of towels soft and white

and a front door with a bell

and a garden with a well

and a place to sit and dream

down beside a little stream.

Grandma’s house is full of things

things with wheels and things with wings,

things with sprouts and things with handles,

bells and books and fans and candles.

Grandma’s house is very small,

but I love to go to call,

and to share a pot of tea –

just my grandmamma and me!

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Practice 1
Complete the circle map with words about Grandma’s house.

i-THINK

GRANDMA’S
HOUSE

Practice 2
Based on the poem, what can you find in these places? Complete the table.

Parts of the house Things found

1. parlour •
•

2. kitchen •
•

3. bathroom •

4. front door •

5. garden •

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7. Noisy Food by Marian Swinger

When you’re munching crunchy apples

or you’re slurping up your soup,
when you’re eating crackly crisps
all on your own or in a group,
when you’re crunching up your cornflakes
or you’re popping bubblegum,
or you’re sucking at an orange
with such squelches that your mum
says, ‘Can’t you eat more quietly,
that noise is rather rude!’
It’s then you say, ‘It’s not my fault.
I’m eating noisy food.’

Practice 1
Answer the following questions.
1. Some words imitate the sound they make, for example, ‘splash’, ‘drip’, ‘gurgle’,
‘mumble’ or ‘bang’. List words in the poem which imitate the sound they make. The
first one has been done for you.
(a) munching
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)

2. List the ‘noisy food’ the poet eats.

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)

3. How do you think the poet’s mother feels when she says, ‘Can’t you eat more quietly,
that noise is rather rude!’
I think she feels .

4. Why can’t the poet eat quietly? HOTS Analysis

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8. Sounds Like Magic by Celia Warren

I listened to a seashell I found a hollow coconut

and thought I could hear and listened for a sound
the rushing of the waves and thought I heard horses’ hooves
inside my ear. pounding on the ground.

I held an empty eggshell I took an empty teacup

close against my head to see what I might hear
and I thought I heard a pecking chick and thought I heard a giant’s voice
hatching from his bed. booming in my ear.

Practice 1
Match the phrases in List A with the phrases in List B.

What did the poet put to her ear? What did she hear?

1. A seashell a pecking chick

2. An empty eggshell rushing waves
3. A hollow coconut a giant’s voice
4. An empty teacup horses’ hooves pounding

Practice 2
Choose the correct meaning of the following words. HOTS Analysis

(a) going forward

1. rushing
(b) moving quickly

(a) curves
2. waves
(b) a rise in the surface of the sea

(a) emerging from an egg

3. hatching
(b) planning something

(a) having an empty space inside

4. hollow
(b) scooping out something

(a) throbbing
5. pounding
(b) repeated hitting against something

(a) loud, deep voice

6. booming
(b) very successful

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B SHORT STORY: THE KING OF KITES

Practice 1
Read the statements and write ‘True’ or ‘False’.

1. Anil used paper, sticks and glue to make kites.

2. Anil’s mother was the Queen of Sewing.

3. Anil wanted to make kites for the wedding guests.

4. Anil’s mother wanted to use Anil’s sequins and ribbons.

5. Everyone in the village wanted new kites for the wedding.

6. Everyone admired Anil’s kites flying high in the sky on the wedding
day.

Practice 2
Match the phrases in List A with the phrases in List B.

List A List B

1. Anil’s mother was the Queen (a) twelve kites at a wedding to

of Needles because be held in his village.
2. Anil needed sheets of paper,
(b) he could not make twelve new
spools of string and a pot of
kites for the wedding.
good strong glue
(c) more cloth and thread for his
3. Anil planned to make and fly
mother.
4. Anil’s mother wanted his
(d) to make his kites.
sequins and ribbons
(e) she knew how to cut cloth,
5. Anil ran to the market to get stitch seams and mend old
clothes.
(f) decorate the kites using some
6. Anil was sad because
sequins and a roll of ribbon.
7. Anil’s friends wanted to help (g) left the kites he made for them
him so they outside his house.
(h) to sew the extra shirts and
8. Anil’s mother helped him
saris for the wedding.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Practice 3
Fill in the blanks correctly.

thread sequins patterns kites clothes string twelve mend

1. Anil knew how to make .

2. Anil helped to other children’s kites.

3. Anil wanted to make and fly kites during an upcoming wedding in his
village.

4. Anil had to help his mother and give his and ribbon to her.

5. Anil’s mother had to sew new for the whole village.

6. Anil bought more cloth and for his mother when she needed more.

7. Anil’s mother used his kite paper to draw her sari .

8. Anil’s mother used his when she did not have enough thread.

Practice 4
Complete the following sentences to describe Anil’s character. Use the words and phrases
in the boxes to help you. The first one has been done for you.

helpful creative thoughtful

mended the
use sequins and in honour of broken kites
ran to the market
bright ribbons the bride

i-THINK

skilful • He of the children in the

village.

• He wanted to make and fly twelve kites

.
ANIL

• He wanted to to
make the kites.

• He for more cloth and thread

when his mother did not have any.

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Practice 5
Who or what do the words in bold refer to?

1. “I shall cover them with sequins and give them tails of

bright ribbon.”

2. “I need your help and I need your sequins and your

ribbon!”

3. All day long she cut and sewed and stitched.

4. “I need more thread!”

5. They had not forgotten his promise to fly kites at the

wedding.

6. “Fetch my needle!”

7. “…everyone praised Anil’s mother for her stitching.”

8. “You made them for us, Anil!”

9. He knew how to fly them in the sky above the village.

10. The other women brought her their old clothes to mend.

11. He set to work and soon his fingers flew.

12. How could he go to the wedding without the kites?

13. She was the Queen of Needles.

14. They laughed and lifted him up onto their shoulders.

15. His mother had cut up his kite paper for sari patterns.

16. “You are the King of Kites!”

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Practice 6
Colour and decorate the kite below. HOTS Creation

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C GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE JUNGLE BOOK

Practice 1
Complete the circle map with the names of characters in the graphic novel.

i-THINK

MAIN
CHARACTERS

Practice 2
Look at the pictures. Name the characters.

1. 2.

3. 4.

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Practice 3
Number the sentences in the correct order. The first one has been done for you.

(a) With the help of two wolf friends and a herd of buffaloes, Mowgli is able
to kill Shere Khan.

(b) Mowgli leaves again for a human village where he is cared for by
Messua.

(c) Akela agrees that Mowgli, a man-cub, can stay in the pack. 1

(d) Mowgli meets Akela and Grey Brother and finds out that Shere Khan
still wants to kill him.

(e) Bagheera tells Mowgli to go to a human village and find the Red Flower.

(f) A troop of monkeys take away Mowgli but Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa
save him.

(g) Shere Khan turns the younger wolves against Mowgli.

(h) Mowgli returns with the Red Flower but leaves again when the pack of
wolves do not accept him.

(i) Mowgli returns to the jungle but refuses to rejoin the pack. He lives with
his old friends – Baloo, Bagheera and his four wolf-brothers.

(j) Mowgli returns to the village carrying Shere Khan’s hide but the villagers
chase him away.

Practice 4
What did Mowgli learn from the following characters? Complete the tree map. HOTS Application

i-THINK THINGS MOWGLI LEARNT

His wolf parents Baloo Bagheera Messua

• • • •

• •

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Practice 5
When do the following events happen? Write the title of the chapters.

1. “Nathoo, you must run or they’ll kill you! Please,

my son, run!”

2. “We’re looking for the Monkey People. They’ve

taken Mowgli.”

3. “His name is Mowgli. We want to raise him with

our cubs.”

4. “Yes … indeed we have. I’m dying, Mowgli and

you … You will leave the jungle …”

5. “Bring it here and use it to make Shere Khan

fear you.”

6. “Kaa helped us find you.”

7. “I’ll go and find the dholes and bring them to the

pack.”

8. “I have had enough of that tiger...”

Practice 6
Fill in the blanks correctly.

herder Shere Khan Won-tolla red dogs

Red Flower fat bull adventures human city

1. Bagheera promised to bring a for the pack if they let Mowgli stay.

2. The Monkey People lived in a place which used to be a .

3. Bagheera urged Mowgli to go to the village to get a .

4. Mowgli worked as a buffalo when he lived in the village.

5. was trampled to death by a herd of buffaloes.

6. Mowgli lived in the jungle and had many after Shere Khan died.

7. was attacked by a pack of dholes.

8. The dholes were hairy-footed .

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Practice 7
Match the sentence parts. Then, use the sentences to describe the pictures below.

Mowgli and Grey Brother drove of the dholes and cut off his tail.

Mowgli waved the Red Flower attacked the dholes.

Mowgli fought with the leader the buffaloes in one direction.

The monkeys carried Mowgli with Baloo and Bagheera.

Mowgli returned to the jungle to be in front of Shere Khan.

A swarm of furious Little People to a place called Cold Lairs.

1.1. 2.2.

3.
3. 4.4.

5.
5. 6.6.

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Practice 8
Form complete sentences about the story using ‘so’ or ‘because’. HOTS Application

1. Father and Mother Wolf asked

Shere Khan wanted to kill him.
Akela for permission

they tried to replace Akela as their

2. Mowgli’s life was in danger
leader.

3. Akela was badly injured during he could plan an attack against the
the fight with the dholes dholes.

4. Bagheera once lived in a cage Buldeo had lied about him and the
and wore a collar wolves.
so
because
5. Bagheera urged Mowgli to get
Mowgli could be a part of the pack.
the Red Flower

6. Mowgli challenged the younger

he died.
wolves

7. The villagers threw stones at

he could use it against Shere Khan.
Mowgli

8. Mowgli followed Kaa to where

he was caught by a human.
the Little People lived

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

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