Noting Details

• Understand the story they read.

• Note important details in the story.

• Note details in sentences and stories read.

• Ensure understanding of characters, incidents, and settings to make and validate predictions

• Identify characters, setting and events in the story read 

Details 

      A part of a whole

     The small elements that collectively constitute a work.

Noting Details 

      It is a reading comprehension skill that involves picking out from a piece of text ,information to achieve a given purpose.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Aesop’s Fable

In a field, one summer’s day, a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping

and singing to its heart’s content. An ant passed by bearing along with great

toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.

“Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of

toiling and moiling in that way?”

“I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant, “and

recommend you to do the same.”

“Why bother about winter?” said the Grasshopper. “We have got plenty

of food at present.”

But the ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came,

the grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw

the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had

collected in the summer. Then the grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for

the days of necessity.

Would you rather be like the Ant or the Grasshopper? Why?

Vocabulary Words 

1. chat  - talk in a friendly or informal way.

2. toiling -  work with effort

3. hop - to jump

4. chirp - tweet  of the bird

5. distribute - to give or share

Answer the following questions from the fable, “The Ant and the

Grasshopper” that you just read.

1. When did the story happen?

2. Where did it take place?

3. Who was working hard under the sun?

4. What was being carried into the nest?

5. Why was the grasshopper not bothered about the winter?

6. What happened to the grasshopper when winter finally came? How did

he feel?