Hansel and Gretel Rumpelstiltskin Two Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

Hansel and Gretel Vocabulary • Use antonyms to determine word meaning: What does the word rejoiced mean Level Q/40 in this book? Let’s look for clues for the meaning of this word on page 8. (Answer: was happy; Clues/Evidence: The woodcutter rejoiced at seeing Hansel and Gretel; His wife, however, was angry.) Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: What did Hansel fill his pockets with?(small, white stones, page 7) • Identify facts and details: What was the little house made of? (cake, page 9) Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension give me • Identify cause and effect: How did Hansel fool the witch into thinking that your he was too thin to eat? Use a cause-and-effect chart for help in answering the finger question. (“Give me your finger,” she’d demand; Hansel would stick out a small bone; her sight was poor; she would complain, “You are still too thin,” page 11) • Compare and contrast: What was different for Hansel between the first night you are stick out and the second night of the story? (the first night Hansel slipped out of the still too a bone cottage door and filled his pockets with stones; on the second night the thin cottage door was locked, pages 7 and 9) Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension her • Analyze characters: What clues on pages 7 and 8 tell you that Hansel is very sight clever? (he filled his coat pockets with small, white stones; he dropped the was bad stones along the route; the stones were shining brightly in the moonlight.) • Make predictions: What clues on page 10 help readers predict that the witch was planning to harm the children? (she had a funny look in her eyes; then they nodded off to sleep, unaware of the danger that faced them the next morning.) Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension • Analyze text structure and organization: The author uses a sequence of events to tell what happened at the woodcutter’s cottage. Find words that tell you this on page 9. (the next morning; After she woke them) • Evaluate author’s purpose: Why did the author probably include the illustration on page 8? (to show how sad Gretel was and how Hansel told her not to worry)

Y06631_CTDR.indd 1 8/27/10 10:23:37 AM Rumpelstiltskin Vocabulary • Use examples to determine word meaning: What does the word jewel mean in this book? Let’s look for clues for the meaning of this word on page 16. (Answer: special object; Clues/Evidence: precious ring) Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: The miller told the king that his daughter could spin straw into . . . (gold, page 15) • Identify facts and details: Rumpelstiltskin loved playing . . . (games, page 19) Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension • Identify cause and effect: Since the miller’s daughter could not imagine that she would ever become a queen, she agreed . . . (to give up her first child, page 17) • Identify facts and details: What were some of the names the queen tried guessing Caspar Melchior with the little man? Use a web for help in answering the question. (Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar, Shortribs, Sheepshanks, Laceleg, Conrad, Harry, pages 19 and 20) Harry Balthazar Guesses Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension Conrad Shortribs • Analyze characters: What clues on page 16 tell you that the little man is tricky? (“What will you give me if I spin this straw into gold?” he asked. An impish smile Laceleg Sheepshanks curled up his lips.) • Make Inferences: What clues tell you that the little man is amused by his plan to take the baby? (the little man laughed as he disappeared from her chamber; He laughed as he sang an odd song; “Wrong!” the little man cheered; “No.” he giggled, pages 19 and 20) Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension • Analyze text structure and organization: What words does the author use on page 16 to tell readers that time has gone by? (that night; toward daybreak) • Evaluate author’s purpose: Why did the author probably include the information about Rumpelstiltskin muttering the words “Im” and “possible” at the end of the story? (to amuse readers)

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