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Kite Watching: First Look at the Poem
Reading For Comprehension · shared-reading
The poem opens with a child observing kites that look “Like coloured birds” — this simile is the poem’s first literary device and worth a brief pause even in this first encounter. Students who have not flown kites personally should still find the picture-completion task accessible, as it anchors imaginative responses to a visual prompt rather than lived experience.
0–10Open with the pre-reading discussion from “Let us read” (p.141): invite students to share whether they have flown or seen a kite, where, and what they noticed. Encourage brief, vivid descriptions of colour, shape, and tail design.
10–22Read the poem aloud, teacher-led with students following in their books (pp.141–142). Pause after each stanza to let the image settle; use a gentle, lilting pace that mirrors the poem's own rhythm.
22–40Work through the picture-completion activity from “Let us read” (p.141): students fill in blanks using the given words (windy, kite, flying, birds, sky, looking, has ribbons), then share two things they would add to the picture and complete the “If I were the child / kite” prompts orally.
Learning outcome. Student reads, discusses and analyses a poem using its imagery, literary devices and structure as the vehicle.
Read the opening lines of the poem beginning “Up in the air”. Which of the following correctly identifies the simile the poet uses to describe the kites?
- A The kites are compared to coloured birds because they fly high and look bright against the sky.
- B The kites are compared to paper wings because they are made of paper.
- C The kites are compared to rooftops because the child sees them from above.
- D The kites are compared to the wild wind because they move quickly.
A. The kites are compared to coloured birds because they fly high and look bright against the sky.
What each wrong option reveals
- B Confuses the vehicle of the simile (coloured birds) with the material the kite is made from (paper wings).
- C Conflates the aerial viewpoint in stanza 4 with the simile in stanza 1, showing confusion of poetic sections.
- D Misidentifies alliteration — ‘wild wind’ — as the comparison device rather than the simile in stanza 1.
Also saved as 5 periods or 7 periods.
- 2True, False and the Truth About Simile
Reading For Comprehension - 3Sound and Pattern: Alliteration, Repetition, Rhyme
Reading For Comprehension - 4Imagining High: Deeper Questions on the Poem
Reading For Comprehension - 5Listening to the Kite Festival: Facts in the Air
Listening - 6Speaking From Experience, Writing From Imagination
Speaking + Writing - 7Words That Move: Parts, Poems, and Kite Vocabulary
Vocabulary Grammar - 8From Ancient Gathas to Kite-Making: Exploring Kite Culture
Beyond Text - 9The Whole Poem in One Flight: Synthesis and Celebration
Synthesis
- 1. A Bottle of Dew (Fables and Folk Tales)
- 2. The Raven and the Fox (Fables and Folk Tales)
- 3. Rama to the Rescue (Fables and Folk Tales)
- 4. The Unlikely Best Friends (Friendship)
- 5. A Friend's Prayer (Friendship)
- 6. The Chair (Friendship)
- 7. Neem Baba (Nurturing Nature)
- 8. What a Bird Thought (Nurturing Nature)
- 9. Spices that Heal Us (Nurturing Nature)
- 10. Change of Heart (Sports and Wellness)
- 11. The Winner (Sports and Wellness)
- 12. Yoga — A Way of Life (Sports and Wellness)
- 13. Kalakritiyon ka Bharat (Culture and Tradition)
- 14. The Kites (Culture and Tradition)
- 15. Embroidering Dreams with her Feet (Culture and Tradition)
- 16. National War Memorial (Culture and Tradition)
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