Text interpretation activity for fifth grade students, the text used was “The princess and the pea”.
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Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but a real princess of royal blood. He traveled the entire world, looking for the princess of his dreams, but every one he found had some fault. It's not that there were no princesses, no. There were plenty of them, but the difficulty was whether they really were of royal blood. And the prince returned to his castle, very sad and disappointed, because I really wanted to marry a real princess.
One night a storm broke ghastly. It rained unabated, with thunder, lightning and lightning. A tremendous spectacle!
Suddenly there was a knock at the castle door, and the king himself went to answer it, for the servants were busy wiping the rooms whose windows had been opened by the storm.
It was a girl, who claimed to be a princess. But she was so soaked, her hair dripping, her clothes clinging to her body, her shoes almost falling apart… that it was hard to believe she was really a royal princess.
The girl so claimed that she was a princess that the queen thought of a way to prove if what she said was true.
He ordered his trusted servant to stack twenty mattresses in the guest room and place a pea under them. That would be the bed of the "princess".
The girl was surprised by the height of the bed, but managed, with the help and a ladder, to lie down.
The next day, the queen asked how she had slept.
– Oh! I couldn't sleep – replied the girl – there was something hard on my bed, and it even left bruises on my body!
The king, queen and prince looked at each other in surprise. The girl really was a princess! Only a real princess would have such sensitive skin to feel a pea under twenty mattresses!!!
The prince married the princess, happily, and the pea was sent to a museum, and must still be there…
Based on the short story by Hans Christian Andersen
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) What are the characters in the text?
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3) Who is the author of this story?
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4) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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5) What did the prince want? Was it easy to achieve this goal?
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6) How was the time when the girl knocked on the king's door?
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7) Who was this girl?
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8) What did the king do to prove what she said?
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9) In the text there are three underlined words, look up their meanings in the dictionary and write them below.
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10) Make an illustration of the story.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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