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Rumpelstiltskin

Warm Up

What do you understand from the pictures? Discuss in class.

This is a lot of wheat!
How am I going to
grind all this?

Hello, Ram! Need
some help?

Yes please. That’s very kind
of you. Thank you.

Reading Skills

Once there was a miller who was very poor. He had a very beautiful daughter. Now
it so happened that he had to go and speak to the king. In order
Why did the miller tell
to make himself appear important, he said to the king, “Your the king that his daughter
Majesty! I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold.” can spin straw into gold?

“Spin straw into gold? If your daughter is as clever as you say,

bring her tomorrow to the palace and I will put her to the test.” The next day, the miller

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