Folktale

Jungle
Treasures
A Southeast Asian Folktale

retold by Anna Harris

illustrated by Liza Woodruff
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 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Vocabulary
Strategy: Make Predictions attempt, awkward,
Skill: Theme cooperation, creates,
furiously, interfere,
Vocabulary Strategy involve, timid
Antonyms
Content Standards
ELL Vocabulary Social Studies
sour, traded, useless Civics

Word count: 757**

**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words
in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

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 Essential Question
Why is working together a good way to solve
a problem?

Jungle
Treasures
A S
Southeast
outheast A
Asian
sian F
Folktale
olktale
retold by Anna Harris
illustrated by Liza Woodruff

Chapter 1
The People of Barat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2
Living in Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 3
Very Useful Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 4
Working Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Respond to Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
PAIRED
Urban Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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Focus on Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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 Chapter 1

The People of Barat

jungle

village

Once, there was a village called Barat. The

village was next to a jungle. The people in the
village were shy and timid. They did not travel
far. They felt awkward talking with people from
other places.

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 There were tall trees with big, orange fruit.
The fruit looked sweet, but the people of Barat
didn’t like it. The fruit was not sweet. The fruit
was sour. The people named it sourfruit.

Fruit is a common noun.

Find another common noun
on this page.

sourfruit

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 lamps

The villagers liked sapwood trees. They used

the resin from sapwood trees as a fuel. They
burned the resin in their lamps. The villagers
could sit and talk by lamplight at night.
Unfortunately, sapwood trees grew on the other
side of the jungle.

STOP AND CHECK

Describe the people of Barat.

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 Chapter 2

Living in Darkness
One night, the people could not light the
lamps. They didn’t have any more resin.
“What will we do now?” a man asked.
“One person has to go on a journey and find
sapwood trees,” another man said.
“I’ll go,” a young villager volunteered.

villager

jungle

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 After three days, the young man arrived at
a village called Timur. He saw people with axes.
They were standing around a large sapwood tree.
The villagers were going to cut down the tree
that made the most resin!
The young man from Barat was shocked.
“Stop!” he said furiously. He ran toward
the villagers. “You can’t get rid of this
wonderful tree!”

destroy. En español,
get rid of quiere decir destruir.

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 sapwood tree

ax

man from Timur man from Barat

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 “These trees are useless,” a man from
the village said.
“We agreed to cut the trees,” another
man said.
“You should not interfere in the affairs of
our village,” a third man said.
“In my village, we use the resin from these
trees as a fuel,” the man from Barat explained.
“If you cut the trees, we’ll live in darkness
every night!”

STOP AND CHECK

Why did the villagers

want to cut the trees?

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 Chapter 3

Very Useful Trees

This news surprised the villagers of Timur.

The man from Barat agreed to show
the people of Timur how to get resin from
sapwood trees.
The man from Barat took a woman from
Timur back to Barat. Then she could see how
useful the sapwood trees were.

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 Three days later, the pair arrived at Barat.
The pair saw people with axes. They were
standing around the oldest sourfruit tree.
They were going to cut the tree with the
most fruit!
The woman from Timur was shocked.
“Stop!” she said furiously. She ran toward
the villagers. “You can’t get rid of this
wonderful tree!”

Barat is a proper noun.

Find another proper noun
on this page.

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 sourfruit tree

man from Barat woman from Timur

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 A woman from Barat said, “These trees have
sour fruit.”
“It falls to the ground and rots. It creates
a smelly mess,” another woman said.
“We agreed we would cut the trees,” said
a third woman.
“In my village, we dry the fruit in the sun,”
the woman from Timur explained. “Then we
put the fruit in our food to add flavor. Sourfruit
trees only grow here. If you cut them, we won’t
be able to cook our tastiest dishes!”

STOP AND CHECK

What shocked the woman

from Timur?

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 Chapter 4

Working Together
That night, the woman from Timur cooked
a feast for the people of Barat. She put dried
sourfruit in many dishes. She showed the
villagers how to cook with the fruit. She put the
food on long tables. The lamps burned resin and
glowed brightly.

lamps

dishes

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 “This food is delicious!” the man from
Barat said.
“It’s so nice not to sit in the dark,” the
woman from Timur said.
“We must attempt to talk more often with
people from other villages,” the man from
Barat said.
“I agree!” the woman from Timur said.

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 The people of Barat began to use dried
sourfruit in their cooking. The people of
Timur burned resin in lamps at night.
Everyone got on well and worked together.
The two villages traded sourfruit for resin,
and resin for sourfruit!

liked each other. En español,

got on well quiere decir llevaban muy bien.

resin

sourfruit

STOP AND CHECK

What did the woman of Timur

teach the villagers of Barat?
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 Summarize Detail

Describe what happens

in the two villages to Detail

summarize the story.

Use the Theme Chart to Detail

help you.
Theme

Text Evidence
1. This story is a folktale. What tells you this?
GENRE

2. What is the main theme of this story? THEME

3. What word on page 6 tells you how

something feels when you are not expecting
it to happen? ANTONYMS

4. Describe what the people from Barat and

Timur learned from each other. WRITE ABOUT
READING

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 Compare Texts
Read about teens working together to solve problems.

Urban Roots
Urban Roots is an organization made
up of teenagers in Austin, Texas. They
grow fruits and vegetables. They work
on a 3.5-acre (1.4-hectare) garden. The
teenagers grow tomatoes, squash, melons,
eggplants, beans, and other vegetables.
Each year, they grow about 30,000 pounds
(13,600 kilograms) of food.
© Urban Roots

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 okra

These teenagers are from Urban

Roots. They are harvesting okra.

The teenagers in Urban Roots are

helping to solve a problem in their
community. Urban Roots sells the fresh
fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets.
They also give away some of the food
they grow. They take the food to soup
kitchens and food banks. Then the soup
© Kelly West/Austin American Statsman

kitchens and food banks give food to

people who need it.

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 Teamwork is
important. The
garden needs
everyone’s
cooperation to
succeed. Each
year, there is a
Farm Fest at the
garden. Urban Roots is
a great way for teenagers These Urban
Roots members
to involve themselves in
are serving food
something that is fun they cooked.
and useful!

Food from
Urban Roots
Soup Meals on
kitchen Wheels

Food Farmers’
bank market

Make Connections
Why do the Urban Roots teenagers work together
to solve problems? ESSENTIAL QUESTION
© Urban Roots

How are the people of Timur and Barat similar to

the teens from Urban Roots? TEXT TO TEXT
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 Folktales Folktales are stories that are passed down
from person to person. Often, folktales teach a
lesson. Sometimes, folktales also give details about
a group of people and their culture.

Read and Find Jungle Treasures is a folktale from

Southeast Asia. The story teaches that sharing ideas
with others can help solve problems. The story also
gives details about the Malaysian people and their
culture.

Your Turn
Work with a partner. Choose a folktale you
know. Make a flow chart that describes the
main events. Then use the flow chart to tell
the folktale to the class. Take turns with your
partner to tell the tale.

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 Literature Circles

Fiction

Characters
How did the villagers change during
the story?

Sequence of Events
What happened in Jungle Treasures?
What happened first, then, next, last?

Plot
What were the problems in the story?
How did people solve these problems?

Author’s Purpose
Why do you think the author wrote
Jungle Treasures?

Make Connections
How is this folktale like other folktales
you have read?

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 Cooperation

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