Santoor, period by period — fitted to your timetable.
Tell Meyy your periods and their length; it plans every chapter of Santoor to fit, and you tick off sections as you teach.
Meeting the Poem: Read-Aloud and First Response
Reading · read-aloud
The poem has five named children, each introduced with an alliterative quality-descriptor — 'Active Anant', 'Graceful Geeta', and so on. Lingering on those descriptors during the read-aloud plants the seed for the adjective work that follows in later word-work units. Keep the new-word explanations brisk and contextual rather than dictionary-style; the children need the meanings to track the poem, not to memorise definitions.
0–8Introduce the chapter title. Ask children what activities keep them healthy and happy, drawing a quick shared list on the board. This opens the poem's world without reading it yet.
8–22Let us Read (pp.67–68): Read the poem aloud expressively, once all the way through, then a second time with children echoing each triplet or couplet. Pause on new words — mistakes, proudly, pace, rhythm, cheerful, swift — pointing to them in the text and giving brief meanings in context.
22–32Invite children to re-read along silently while you read a third time at a moderate pace. Ask two or three volunteers to read a stanza each, supporting their pronunciation warmly.
32–40Close by asking: 'Which child in the poem are you most like, and why?' Take three or four quick responses. No written work; oral sharing only.
Learning outcome. Student reads and retrieves explicit information using a celebratory poem as the vehicle.
Look at the poem on pages 67–68. Which sport does Anant play, and what does Geeta learn from doing every day?
- A Anant plays cricket; Geeta learns from practising yoga every day.
- B Anant plays football; Geeta learns from cycling faster every day.
- C Anant plays hockey; Geeta learns from her mistakes in skating every day.
- D Anant plays hockey; Geeta learns from watching Lhamo play guitar every day.
C. Anant plays hockey; Geeta learns from her mistakes in skating every day.
What each wrong option reveals
- A The child knows Anant plays hockey but has confused Geeta's activity with an unrelated one.
- B The child has confused Anant's sport with a different outdoor game and misread Geeta's stanza.
- D The child correctly identifies Anant's sport but conflates Geeta's learning with Lhamo's stanza.
Also saved as 7 periods or 9 periods.
- 2Reading for Meaning: Comprehension Discussion
Reading - 3Think and Discuss: Sport, Music, and Dance
Oracy - 4Alliterative Adjectives: What Quality Describes You?
Word Work - 5Adjectives in Action: Matching and Noun-Pairing
Word Work - 6Double-Letter Words: Picture Prompt and Guided Writing
Writing - 7Rhyming Words: Finding Patterns in the Poem
Word Work - 8Word Meanings: Matching Definitions to Poem Vocabulary
Word Work - 9No-Fire Cooking Activity: Healthy Food, Healthy Nation
Beyond Text - 10Paralympic Games: Research, Discover, Share
Beyond Text - 11Bringing It All Together: Poem, Words, and Our Voices
Synthesis
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