20876 ACE Language (Yr 1) Simple Texts

Loawnu the wise woman
(An Asian folktale — narrative)
Resource sheet
One warm spring day in China,
some children went out to the fields
to play.
They found some parts of the sky on
the ground.
They ran to Loawnu, the wise woman.
‘The sky is falling!’ they said. ‘What will we do?’
Loawnu smiled sweetly and said, ‘Go back
to the field and collect all the pieces of the
sky. I will sew them back together for you
before the festival’.
The spring festival was a very important
celebration for the village. All the young men
and women were to gather in the village to
find husbands and wives. The village would
be very embarrassed if people found out the sky had fallen.
The children quickly picked up all the pieces of the sky and took
them to Laownu.
‘Some are missing!’ they told Loawnu sadly.
‘Don’t worry,’ she said with a secret smile. But the children still
worried.
The next morning, when they woke up, the children looked up
at the sky. It was just as clear and blue as before. They were very
happy.
But that night, they got a big surprise! Instead of dark night, bright
twinkling light filled the spaces where the missing pieces of the sky
should have been.
Loawnu the wise woman had cleverly fixed the sky!
Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELA1448)
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