Stories: Supplemental Guide 5A | The Bremen Town Musicians 93Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
Comprehension Questions
If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines
of the story and/or refer to specific images. If students give one-word
answers and/or fail to use read-aloud or domain vocabulary in their
responses, acknowledge correct responses by expanding the students’
responses using richer and more complex language. Encourage students
to answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete
sentences.- Literal What is the title of this story?
- The title of this story is “The Bremen Town Musicians.”
- Literal Who are the characters?
[Have students identify the characters on Response Card 5.]- The characters are the donkey, dog, cat, rooster, the family, and the
uncle.
- The characters are the donkey, dog, cat, rooster, the family, and the
- Literal What is the family doing in the house when the animals first
see them?- The family is eating dinner.
- Literal How do the animals try to impress or get the family’s attention?
- They stand on one another and make a loud noise.
- Literal Why does the family run away?
- The family runs away because the noise of the animals frightened them.
- Inferential Did the animals mean to scare the family away?
- No, the animals did not mean to scare the family away.
- Evaluative What kind of special story is “The Bremen Town
Musicians"?- It is a folktale.
- Evaluative Which parts of the story are real? Which parts of the story
are fantasy?- The animals making animal noises, animals getting old, animals liking
certain foods (e.g., a dog likes a bone) and a family living in a house are
real. Animals becoming musicians and animals talking are fantasy.
[Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]
- The animals making animal noises, animals getting old, animals liking