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.
First Meeting with the Old Stag's World
Reading · read-aloud
Read with varied voice to distinguish the stag's gentle character from the greedy behaviour of the visiting animals — students at this grade respond strongly to tonal contrast. The phrase 'green cover of the hillock slowly vanished' is worth pausing on; ask students to picture the hillock before and after the visits.
0–5Teacher introduces six new words — lush, stag, hillock, tender, sheltering, recovery — by writing them on the board and asking students to guess meanings from context before reading.
5–25Let us Read (pp.43–46): teacher reads the story aloud with expression, pausing after each paragraph to check understanding through brief questions such as 'What did the animals do when they visited?'
25–35Students take turns reading two or three sentences each in a choral-reading round, practising the six new words in context.
35–40Quick whole-class discussion: 'What is one thing you noticed about how the animals behaved?' — students share one-sentence responses.
Learning outcome. Student infers cause-and-effect relationships and identifies character motivation using a prose fable as the vehicle.
Why did the green grass on the hillock slowly disappear after the animals began visiting the sick stag?
- A Heavy rains washed the grass away from the hillock.
- B Strong winds blew the grass seeds off the hillock.
- C The stag himself ate all the grass to regain his strength.
- D The visiting animals greedily ate the tender grass while they were there.
D. The visiting animals greedily ate the tender grass while they were there.
What each wrong option reveals
- A Student may be confusing the rain that later restores the grass with the event that removed it.
- B Student is guessing a natural cause rather than the human-like greed the story emphasises.
- C Student has reversed the story logic — the stag was too ill to eat, which is the whole problem.
Also saved as 6 periods or 8 periods.
- 2Reading to Understand — Comprehension Discussion
Reading - 3Think, Discuss, and Share — From Story to Life
Oracy - 4The Jalebi Bowl — Guided Conversation on Sharing
Oracy - 5Words and Their Meanings — Matching Descriptive Phrases
Word Work - 6Descriptive Words — Visualising Scenes in Writing
Word Work - 7Adverbs of Manner — How Things Are Done
Word Work - 8The Monkeys' Fast — Writing Dialogue for a Comic Strip
Writing - 9Writing About a Friend and Making a Thank You Card
Writing + Beyond Text - 10The Old Stag — Whole-Chapter Celebration and Synthesis
Synthesis
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