The Golden Flute Level Q
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 995

Book Summary
The Golden Flute is a Yao Chinese folktale about a little girl who is stolen by a dragon. Her mother hears the girl's voice on the wind saying that her brother will rescue her--but she doesn't have a brother. On the way home, her mother eats a magical bayberry and gives birth to a boy that same night. The boy grows incredibly quickly and soon leaves to rescue his sister. On the way, he finds a golden flute that makes animals dance. He uses his new flute to exhaust the dragon with dancing, defeating it and saving his sister.

Suggested Lesson Focus

Comprehension/Literary Element Strategies
Describe the initiating event, subsequent events, and the final resolution.

Word Skills
Provide homophones for given words in text.

Grammar Skills
Discuss and provide irregular plurals for given nouns.

Phonics Skills
Identify words with vowel diphthongs.

Targeted Vocabulary Words
vaguely, staggered, chiseling