GRADE 3

CLASS READER

PINOCCHIO
1- Was Geppetto a wood carver with a lot of money?

No
2- What did Geppetto carve from a piece of wood?
A puppet

3- Why did Geppetto want Pinocchio to live with him and be like a
son?
He was all alone.
 In the morning, Geppetto dressed the puppet smartly and said,
'Now you are ready for school.‘
'I cannot go to school,' Pinocchio grumbled, ‘because I don't have a
spelling book.’
Geppetto went out into the snow and sold his old coat to buy
Pinocchio a spelling book. On the way home he went into the baker's
shop to buy a big bread roll to take for his lunch.

1. How did Geppetto manage to buy

a spelling book for Pinocchio?

He sold his old coat.

 The puppet still complained. 'Do I
have to go to school? he moaned.
Yes, of course, ‘Geppetto insisted. 3. How do you think
‘You don’t want to grow up silly, do Geppetto felt when
you?’ Pinocchio set off for school?

So Pinocchio set off for school, He felt lonely.

and he might have got there if he
hadn't heard loud music playing.

The baker was standing outside

his shop.
 ‘What's happening?' Pinocchio
asked him. ‘The puppet theatre
is here, 'said the baker. ‘Come
and see the puppet show!' cried
the puppet master, who was
called Fire-Eater. 'It's only five
pennies.’
4. Name the puppet master.
Pinocchio didn’t have even one
penny, but he had an idea.
a)Fire –Eater

b)Theater
He checked inside the spelling
book and scratched his beard
again.
‘Very well,’ he said at last.
‘It’s a deal.’ And they shook
hands.
8. What was the deal between
Pinocchio and the baker?
Pinocchio was ready to sell the
spelling book for the excellent
price of five pennies.
Guess what kind of an
animal is going to meet
Pinocchio?

A grasshopper.
 As Pinocchio waited outside the theatre with his five shiny
pennies, he ate the bread roll that he should have saved for his lunch.
Just as he finished the last mouthful, a grasshopper jumped onto a
wall nearby and warned him, ‘If you don't go to school, Pinocchio,
you'll grow really silly. You'll be a complete donkey.‘
‘Go away you horrid insect,' said Pinocchio. Causing fear
‘I don't want to go to school. I want to see puppets.’

10. What did the grasshopper tell Pinocchio to do?

a) Pinocchio must go to school.

b) Pinocchio must see the puppets.

'What about poor Geppetto ? ' the grasshopper asked. 'He sold his coat
so that you could go to school with a spelling book and with that bread
roll that you have just gobbled up, and now he's shivering with cold as he
works hard to earn enough money for your supper.’

ate noisily shaking

Can you spot the punctuation marks in text?

Oh dear, thought Pinocchio. I didn't mean to do that.
But it was too late. The grasshopper was dead and the puppet show was
starting.

13.What happened to the grasshopper?

a) Pinocchio threw a heavy stone and killed it.

b) Grasshopper went to watch a puppet show.

 “Pinocchio you will grow up
really silly. You will be a
complete donkey.”
Who said these words to
Pinocchio?
Write any two new
characters
from this chapter?

b) Geppetto Fire -Eater

a) Grasshopper
Grasshopper

Baker
1. What was Pinocchio’s excuse for not going to school?

a) He was not having a spelling book.

b) He wants to go to baker’s shop.

2. Write true or false.

a) Pinocchio had lots of money.

b) Pinocchio threw heavy stones on grasshopper.

Show me your learning

1. Find any two words with ‘ea’ spelling pattern.

cast, please , dear, deer

2. Choose the correct punctuation.

Will they swim in the lake ____

? !

3. ‘Go away you horrid insect,' who said this?

grasshopper Pinocchio