Building comprehension of 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'

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Understanding the genre of 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'

Reading the folktale 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'

Building comprehension of 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby' through rich discussions

Drawing conclusions and making comparisons 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'

In 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby’, children developed their understanding of the features of a traditional tale and inferred meaning from the text. In ’The Sheep Pig’, children will develop their inference skills with a more complex narrative and story structure. They will discuss how the author creates an impression of different characters. 

In 'Mulan’, pupils read and listened to a traditional tale. They developed their understanding of the features of a traditional tale and discussed the theme of a hero. In ’Anansj and the Antelope Baby’, pupils will read a traditional folk tale and will develop their understanding of what a moral is.

In this unit, pupils read and explore the folktale, 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'. They use retrieval and inference to develop their comprehension of the text. Finally, pupils will explore the key themes and engage in rich discussions.

'Anansi and the Antelope Baby': reading

Anansi escapes danger with the help of Antelope.

Anansi and Antelope offer help and protection to one another.

What is the best summary of 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'?

True or false? Anansi is always portrayed as an unkind trickster.

Which admirable qualities does Anansi demonstrate towards Antelope in the story?

Skim and scan the appropriate page for the keywords.

Read the sentence containing the keywords.

Check the sentence before or after the one containing the keywords.

Order the process for retrieving key information from the text.

to make your own conclusion from clues within the text

How do you use inference skills when reading?

evidence from the text to support your ideas

What should you include when making inferences from a text?

to pull out the key events and ideas from the story

What is the best summary of Anansi's character?

Anansi faces danger when a forest fire heads towards him.

Anansi says he will repay the kindness if Antelope ever needs help.

Starting with the first, order these events from the beginning of the story.

Antelope leaves her baby by a bush while she goes to get food.

Hunters spot Antelope and Baby and want to catch them.

The hunters go after Antelope and Anansi decides to spin a web to protect Baby.

The hunters come back for Baby but Anansi manages to hide her in time.

Antelope returns and is grateful to Anansi. 

Starting with the first, order these events from the rest of the story.

Which key feature of a folktale is it important to understand?

Starter Quiz

What does it mean to summarise?