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Unit 1 Text type: narrative Themes: d reaming, making plans Daydreaming 600L Student Card 1 First reading • Read aloud the title. Explain that this story is one of many stories in a collection of stories called the Arabian Nights. Ask students if they know what daydreaming is and whether they have ever spent time daydreaming. • Have students read the text on their own for the first time. Guided close readingSCHOLASTIC Daydreaming Identify setting © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-10-1There once lived a man in Baghdad whoHe lay back in his chair, sighing happily. Ask: What can you find out about the inherited one hundred dirhams from his “Once I have more dirhams, I will buy jewels father. He invested the money in some and perfumes. I will sell them for twice setting from the clues on this page? glassware. He packed it carefully and took what I bought them for. I will become Have students pay attention to clues the it home. very wealthy!” author gives, such as what kind of money the man used and how he planned to He displayed the glassware on a big tray, He chuckled, his eyes shut in bliss. “With travel. ready to sell at the market. He sat down and my new-found wealth, I will be able to buy a set the glassware in front of him. big, beautiful house. Priceless artwork will Think aloud line the walls. I will buy the finest horse and The text states that the setting is at “Now,” the man said to himself. “I have travel the country. Women will want me a man’s home in Baghdad. The text bought this glassware with one hundred as their husband. Men will want also states that he planned to travel dirhams. I will surely sell it for two me as their friend. I will be the by horse. This is a clue that the story hundred. Then, I will buy more glassware most popular person took place a long time ago. and sell that for four hundred. I will in Baghdad!” continue buying and selling in this way.” Key details Ask: What was the man’s plan for the glassware he bought? Have students think about what the man said he would do with the glassware. Think aloud The man intended to sell it for more than he paid, and with the profit, buy more glassware. He intended to keep doing this to make money. SRF_Box_3_Daydreaming.indd 9 08/01/18 10:56 AM 8

Summary: A man inherits some money and buys some Vocabulary: glassware. Before he even makes money, he daydreams about • dirham: currency used in some Middle-Eastern states his future wealth. Will his dream really come true? • sultan: Muslim royal ruler Key details©2018ScholasticEducationInternationalS(S)PteLtd ISBNC 978-981-4808-10-1HOLASTICThe man continued, “Why, I wouldn’t becan see that!’ Of course, the men would see Ask: What challenges did the man think surprised if I am invited to the palace! The immediately how wrong they were, and sultan will be impressed by my cleverness would bow before me in awe. As a speaker, he would have when he became and acute business sense. Oh! I wonder I am truly persuasive.” rich? if he will ask me to be his adviser!” Have students think about the “But,” the man sighed, shaking his head, daydreams the man had. “My intelligence will be world-famous.” “that is only one of the many challenges I He pursed his lips.“I will surely impress will face. I will have many admiring women Think aloud the princess, who’ll wish to wed at once. competing for my attention. They will flock The man imagined he would be My marriage will be the happiest one the to me. But I will say, ‘My heart belongs only king and that people would try to world has seen, for my bride will be clever to my princess.’” undermine his rule. He also imagined and kind. Then, when her father dies, I will that many women would compete for be king! I will rule the kingdom with a firm “And what of the thieves? They will break his attention and that thieves would hand. Wars and famine will be a thing of into the palace in the dead of night. They try to steal his wealth. the past. The country will flourish under will try to steal my gold. But I will fight my guidance, for sure!” them, for I am quick and strong! I will hit Problem and solution them, like this.” He punched the air in front Ask: What problem did kicking the He smiled, deep in thought. “I’m sure there of him. “But they will get back to their feet. will be those who would try to undermine I will then kick them away, like this.” glassware create for the man? my rule. But I would say to them, ‘Dear He kicked out with his foot, sending the Have students think about how the man’s sirs! You have neither my wisdom nor my tray of glassware crashing across the room. plans depended on the glassware. calmness. This kingdom will become poor The floor was a sea of broken glass. and weak without my wise rule. Surely you Think aloud The man’s plans depended on selling the first set of glassware. All of his daydreams shattered along with it. SRF_Box_3_Daydreaming.indd 10 08/01/18 10:56 AM Revisit the text Share and discuss the following questions to sum up the text. Encourage students to support their thinking and statements with ideas from the text. • Why do you think the author put the story problem at the end instead of at the beginning? What is the effect of this? • Based on the man’s daydreams, how would you describe him? • What message do you think the author wants the reader to understand from reading this story? 9

Unit 1 910L Student Card 2 Text type: narrative Themes: respect, kindness, The Three Tasks compassion First reading • Read the title aloud. Explain that in this fairy tale, two brothers approach a series of tasks in very different ways. Ask students if they think that the way they approach a task makes a difference. • Have students read the text on their own for the first time. Guided close readingSCHOLASTIC ••• Analyze character © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-10-1was a high-spirited, spiteful youth,the seeds. I shall come back in an hour, and you Ask: What do Helmrich’s actions on his who vented his spite in a very nasty way on all the must have finished by then.” creatures he met as he walked along the path. He way to the castle reveal about him? threw sticks and stones at the birds singing their Helmrich thought that a very bad joke, and Think aloud songs, frightening them off their branches. When certainly was not going to break his back picking Helmrich threw stones at the birds, he saw an anthill, he rode his horse at it and made up all those seeds, so instead he went for a stroll. destroyed an anthill and a beehive, the poor beast trample it; when the angry ants As a result, when the old woman came back, she and hit ducks with a stick. This shows climbed onto his horse and him, he squashed them found the jug empty. that he enjoyed hurting others and all. He came to a pond in which twelve ducklings was a heartless and unkind person. were swimming; after luring them onto the “This is bad,” she said with a grave face. She bank, he struck all of them with a stick, sending then took twelve little golden bowls from her Key details feathers flying, before they escaped back to their pocket and threw them into the castle pond. Ask: Why didn’t Helmrich bother to do parents. Then, he came upon a hive of wild bees “Get those bowls out. I shall be back in an hour, and destroyed it, as he had done the anthill. His and you must be finished by then.” the first two tasks? greatest pleasure was not to protect innocent Think aloud creatures, but to torment and destroy them out of Helmrich just laughed and went for another Helmrich thought the tasks were just sheer spitefulness and ill will. stroll. When the old woman came back, she said, bad jokes. He was lazy and didn’t “This is bad, bad.” Then she took him by the want to do the work necessary to As the sun was going down, Helmrich reached hand and led him into the great hall of the castle, complete the tasks. the splendid castle where an enchanted princess where he saw three figures, sitting quietly, was imprisoned. He knocked loudly on the castle enveloped in thick, white veils. gate. A wizened old crone with a face the color of cobwebs asked what he wanted. “Choose, my son, but choose correctly! I shall be back in an hour.” “I’ve come to free the princess,” Helmrich said. “Open up!” When the old woman returned, Helmrich was still no wiser and had no idea which to “Not so fast,” said the woman. “Come back choose, so he chose at random: “I choose the one tomorrow and we shall see.” on the right.” The next morning, when the old woman saw Then, all three threw back their veils: the one Helmrich, she scattered a jugful of linseed over sitting in the middle was the princess, and to the grass, and said, “Your first task is to pick up the right and left of her sat two horrible dragons. One of the dragons seized Helmrich in its long talons and threw him out of the window into a deep abyss. ••• SRF_5_TheThreeTasks.indd 29 15/01/18 12:38 PM 10

Summary: In this fairy tale, two brothers take on three very Vocabulary: difficult tasks to free a princess. Which brother will succeed in • abyss: bottomless hole his quest? • crone: ugly old woman • torment: to cause someone or something extreme pain Compare and contrast ••• Ask: How is Hans different from his ©2018ScholasticEducationInternationalS(S)PteLtd ISBNC 978-981-4808-10-1HOLASTICHans was Helmrich’s brother. Having waitedBut then, the ants he had helped came crawling up brother Helmrich? long for his brother to return with some good to him. Each ant picked up a seed and in a few Think aloud news, Hans set off to try to save the princess. At minutes the jug was full. Helmrich was cruel and arrogant. night, Hans slept on soft green moss at the feet He destroyed or attacked the animals of tall old trees. The birds of the forest came and When the old woman saw this, she said, he encountered and was rude to the sang him their loveliest songs. When he passed “Good.” She threw the twelve bowls into the pond. old woman. Hans treated the animals the anthill that his brother had destroyed, he with respect. He was a happy person saw the ants still busy repairing the last of the Hans plunged into the depths to try and fish out who enjoyed life. He was polite to damage. He even bent down and tried to help the bowls, but he couldn’t reach the bottom. the old woman, he was shy, and them, and those that by mistake crawled up on Looking up, he saw twelve ducklings come he didn’t think he was superior to him, he carefully picked off and set down on the swimming along, each one holding a golden bowl others. ground without hurting them. At the pond, he in its beak. The ducklings came out of the water called the ducks and ducklings to the bank and and laid the bowls on the grass. Cause and effect shared the remains of his bread with them and, Ask: Why did the ants help Hans with when he saw the bees, he plucked some flowers When the old woman returned, she said, “Very and laid them by the entrance to the hive. good.” She took him by the hand and led him into his task? the great hall. Think aloud Happy at being alive, Hans finally reached the On his way to the castle, Hans tried castle and knocked shyly on the gate. The shutter Desperately, Hans scrutinized the three veiled to help the ants repair their anthill. opened and the old woman asked him what he figures. With his time nearly up, a swarm of bees He didn’t hurt them like his brother wanted. came flying in through an open window and did. Because of this, the ants were circled around the figures. grateful and helped him. “If I am not too humble a person,” said Hans, “I would very much like to try and rescue The bees quickly flew away from the two the princess.” figures on the right and left, because the dragons The old woman said: “You may try, my son, smelled of sulphur. Around the middle figure they but remember that if you cannot pass the test of circled slowly and quietly, buzzing in a deep, low the three tasks, it will cost you your life.” The old tone, for the princess was very fond of honey and woman scattered the linseed. no doubt smelled sweetly of it. Hans was not lazy—he bent down and began When the old woman returned, Hans pointed to working feverishly, but in almost no time at all the middle figure. At that, the evil dragons shot off the three-quarters of an hour had struck and the through the window at lightning speed and were bottom of the jug was little more than covered. never seen again. The princess threw off her veil, and she and Hans rejoiced at her new found freedom. ••• Problem and solution SRF_5_TheThreeTasks.indd 30 15/01/18 12:38 PM Ask: How did Hans determine which of the three figures to choose? Think aloud Hans saw that the bees flew away from the figures on the right and left. They only circled the figure in the middle because she smelled sweet. Hence, he knew which figure to choose. Revisit the text Share and discuss the following questions to sum up the text. Encourage students to support their thinking and statements with ideas from the text. • What features of a fairy tale can you find in this story? What other fairy tales do you know that are similar to this one? • The two brothers had very different character traits. How do you think the differences in their character traits led to their success or failure? 11

Unit 2 Text type: factual response Themes: jobs, careers Animal Keeper 610L Student Card 1 First reading • Read the title aloud. Tell students that this is an informational text in the form of an interview with an animal keeper who works in a wildlife park. Point out that this type of text often follows a question-and-answer format. Explain that interviews like these often have a short introduction to provide context for the reader. • Have students read the text on their own for the first time. Guided close readingSCHOLASTIC , Compare and contrast © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-10-1 If you love animals, having a job as an animal keeper in a wildlife Ask: Based on the information in the park would be a dream come true. Although the animals are living in captivity, a wildlife park allows the animals to live in as introduction, how is a wildlife park natural a habitat as possible. We interviewed Michelle to find out different from a zoo? about her exciting job as an animal keeper. Have students focus on the introduction Interviewer: As an animal keeper, what to look for a description of a wildlife park exactly is your job? to compare with what they already know Michelle: It’s my job to keep the animals about zoos. happy and safe. Interviewer: Do you work with all the Think aloud animals in the park? The animals in a wildlife park live in Michelle: I work with the animals that captivity like zoo animals, but unlike come from Africa and South Asia. I work animals in zoos, they have a habitat with rhinos, giraffes, zebras and gazelles. that is as close to their natural Interviewer: How does your day begin? habitat as possible. Michelle: Well, I’ll tell you one thing - it begins too early! I get up at five o’clock in the morning. Text structure Then I eat breakfast and put on my uniform. Ask: The interviewer asks questions Then it’s time to head for the park. Interviewer: What happens next? about how Michelle’s day begins and Michelle: I load my van with food for the what tasks she does next. How does animals. Here at the park, we use food that the this question-and-answer format animals would eat in the wild. My animals are help the reader better understand plant eaters. You wouldn’t think that leaves, and process the information in the grass and crumbs could weigh so much! text? 14 World Wildlife Have students think about how Michelle answers the last two questions on this page. Think aloud These kinds of questions help the reader organize the information and provide a logical sequence of events for the reader. 12

Summary: This interview with an animal keeper describes why Vocabulary: taking care of wild animals at a safari park is her dream job. • entertain: give amusement by performing • study: observe closely Make inferences©2018ScholasticEducationInternationalS(S)PteLtd ISBNC 978-981-4808-10-1HOLASTICInterviewer: What do you do whencombed, and some of the rhinos may need Ask: Why is it sometimes difficult for the feeding time is over? to have their toenails clipped. animal keepers to find the babies Michelle: First, we go around and count Interviewer: What? Are you serious? after a mother has given birth? all the animals. We make sure they’re You don’t really clip the rhinos’ toenails, all okay. Most of the time, they are. do you? Have students think about the different Sometimes we’ll bring a sick animal to places animal keepers look for and find the vet. Sometimes a giraffe or zebra or Michelle: We do! I know it sounds odd, the baby animals. gazelle will go off somewhere to have her but it’s one of my favorite jobs. First, I babies. Then we must go looking for her. bring the rhino something he loves - a big Think aloud Finding her babies is another story. bucket of sweet grass, seeds and crumbs. The mothers hide the babies to keep Then I rub his belly. Soon he will roll over them safe. They do not want their Interviewer: What do you mean? - just like a puppy. Then I take a pair of babies to be found, so they hide giant clippers and slowly begin to clip his them up in the hills, behind rocks, Michelle: Well, after the mothers have toenails. If I’m lucky he’ll let me work on and under tree limbs. their babies, they hide them. They’re him for almost an hour. trying to protect them. We have to climb Cause and effect high up into the hills and look behind Interviewer: You must really love Ask: What made Michelle want to rocks. We have to look under fallen tree animals to do that! Have you always limbs. We keep looking until we spot loved animals? become an animal keeper? them. It can take a long time. Michelle: Always, always, always! When I Have students focus on what Michelle Interviewer: Do the mothers want you was a little girl, I thought I’d be a vet when says about herself when she was growing to be near the babies? I grew up. up and when she helped out at a wildlife park. Michelle: Not really. But we need to make Interviewer: When did you decide to sure the babies are okay. We don’t get too become an animal keeper instead? Think aloud close unless we have to. For instance, if Michelle says she always loved a baby looks too small, we bring it in and Michelle: When I got older, I became a animals and after becoming a helper weigh it. helper at this park and I loved it! That’s at an animal park, she realized that when I knew I wanted to study animals she loved it. She decided to work Interviewer: What other jobs do you do? and work at a place like this. there and study animals. Michelle: I have many other jobs. Some Interviewer: Is there anything else that animals might need to be vaccinated. you would like people to know about Others might need to be washed or these animals? Michelle: It’s important to respect them. They’re not pets. They’re not just here to entertain us. You must be very careful around these animals. You must respect their power. World Wildlife 15 Revisit the text Share and discuss the following questions to sum up the text. Encourage students to support their thinking and statements with ideas from the text. • How does the interviewer get Michelle to expand on her answers and provide more information? • Why do you think Michelle says it’s important to respect the animals? In what ways does she show her respect for the animals? • What other careers do you know of that involve caring for or studying animals? How is being an animal keeper similar to those jobs? How is it different? 13

Unit 2 Text type: information report Theme: solving crime Solving Crime 990L Student Card 2 First reading • Read the title aloud. Tell students that they will read about techniques investigators use to solve crimes. Engage students in a short discussion of what they already know about how crimes are investigated. Encourage them to connect what they know to the information they read in the text. • Have students read the text on their own for the first time. Guided close readingApictureSisbuiltCHOLASTICSolving Crime Key ideas for each suspect:A crime is the act of breaking a law. Stealing, hurting Ask: What is a crime? What is the someone or destroying the property of others are all crimes © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-10-1because there are laws in our society forbidding us from relationship between laws and doing these things. Laws protect people. However, as long crimes? as there are laws, there will be people who break them. Think aloud Laws in our society forbid us from Pathology Following on from Interviews hurting others and stealing or the crime scene... destroying others’ property. When • Establish cause • witnesses these laws are broken, a crime is of death The first stages of a crime • victims’ families committed. investigation happen at Forensics Lab breakneck speed. Everything and friends Text features collected at the crime scene is • suspects Ask: What purpose do the chain links Analysis of: analyzed. Data is collected • informants • fingerprints from many different sources. • undercover police between the text boxes serve? • DNA A narrative begins to emerge. Think aloud • poisons and drugs Electronic The chain links show the different • other chemicals Historical data evidence types of evidence that work together as a whole to build a picture of the hair, fibers, bullets • criminal records • CCTV footage crime. • reports from other police • police surveillance Documentation • phone taps etc forces and Interpol • photographs Databases • sketches • receipts • fingerprints • financial records • DNA • handwriting analysis • poisons and drugs • other chemicals • hair, fibers, bullets Method: Motive: Opportunity: hscDuirsoismtopthereyecmtef’aastcctac?tshbioltihtfieethse, Dhcaoovmeesmatihtrteienasgustoshpneefccortrime? cahaDrtaniomtvheaeeeslibbotehiec?xeecaCnucsrotuarutestilmpdtdhe?eetchttsehhcyeaevnee Untitled-2.indd 1 26/11/17 9:43 PM 14

Summary: This fact file explains the different aspects of a Vocabulary: crime that need to be investigated. It also lists several famous • incriminate: to provide evidence of a crime unsolved crimes. • Interpol: an association of over 100 police forces that collaborate to solve international crimes Make connections Famous British Crimes Ask: What evidence supports the idea A Quick Arrest that fingerprinting has been used 2009 • Graff Diamonds Robbery • London, England by investigators for more than 50 years? Millions of pounds (dollars) worth of jewelry were stolen from an exclusive diamond store in broad daylight. The robbers had used a professional make-up artist to disguise their faces so - even Think aloud though CCTV footage inside the store clearly showed their faces - identification was difficult. The Following the great train robbery thieves switched getaway cars several times, but that’s when their luck ran out. They left a mobile in 1963, suspects left fingerprints phone behind in one of the cars, complete with a set of anonymous numbers. The robbers were in a farmhouse. This tells readers found within weeks, but the jewelry has never been found. that investigators were using fingerprinting in the 1960s, more PAtient Police Work than 50 years ago. 1963 • The Great Train Robbery • Buckinghamshire, England Vocabulary In a highly planned event, 15 hooded men attacked a mail train carrying millions of pounds Ask: What does meticulous mean? (dollars). The robbers hid in a nearby farmhouse for several days before splitting up the money and going their separate ways. Several errors led to their capture, in particular the failure of a gang What words in the text help you member to burn down the farmhouse after they had all gone. In spite of the robbers’ meticulous understand the word’s meaning? cleaning, the police found a few fingerprints and incriminating banknote wrappers. Several informants came forward and, with a great deal of hard work, the police brought successful cases Think aloud against many of the gang. Very little of the money was recovered. Meticulous means “very careful or thorough”. The phrases “in spite of” A FAmous unsolved cAse and “police found a few fingerprints” 1888 • Jack the Ripper • London, England provide context that although the robbers cleaned very carefully and The real identity of one of history’s most famous serial killers has never been proven, although thoroughly, the police still found there have been many suspects. The killer named himself Jack the Ripper in letters to the police. evidence they had left behind. Did You Know? 99.9% of human dnA is the same in all of us. it’s the 0.1% that makes us unique— that helps criminal investigators work out exactly who was at that crime scene! Which patterns are in your fingerprints? How about your relatives’ and friends’ prints? Use a magnifying glass for the best view. ©2018ScholasticEducationInternationalS(S)PteLtd ISBNC 978-981-4808-10-1HOLASTIC Make inferences Solving CrimesArchWhorlLoopComposite Ask: Why is DNA used to help Untitled-2.indd 2 26/11/17 9:43 PM investigators figure out who was at a crime scene? Think aloud Since 0.1% of our DNA is unique, investigators can use this 0.1% to identify people who were at a crime scene. Revisit the text Share and discuss the following questions to sum up the text. Encourage students to support their thinking and statements with ideas from the text. • How can fingerprints help investigators solve crimes? • What is your reaction to the statement “as long as there are laws, there will be people who break them”? • What did you learn from this text that is different from and similar to what you see in movies and TV programs about solving crimes? 15