CHALLENGING WORDS

emperor
magnificent
officials
perfection
scissors
scoundrels
simpleminded
soldiers
superb
weavers

SUMMARY

The emperor Penguin is the best-dressed bird in the land. But nothing will save him from a pair of clever scoundrels. As the reveal the naked truth about the foolish ruler.

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Retell your favorite part of the story.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Where do you buy new clothes?
(2) / Assume you were the high officials. What would you tell the Emperor?
(Answer) / Any logical answer
(Follow Up) / Were the officials honest?
(3) / Estimate how long you think the weavers took to make the cloth.
(Answer) / Any logical answer
(Follow Up) / What is your favorite color shirt?
(4) / Suppose you were the emperor. How would you have felt after being embarrassed?
(Answer) / Any logical answer
(Follow Up) / Tell at time you were embarrassed.
(5) / Define advisers.
(Answer) / One who gives advice.
(Follow Up) / Can you think of another word for adviser?
(6) / What did the emperor always want?
(Answer) / New clothes.
(Follow Up) / What's your favorite thing to wear?
(7) / Find what the emperor gave to the weavers to make him new clothes.
(Answer) / Large amounts of gold and fine silk thread.
(Follow Up) / What do you spend your money on?
(8) / What were the machines called that they used to make the emperors new cloth?
(Answer) / Weaving looms.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever seen a loom?
(9) / Find what the weavers said people said would be called if they couldn't see the emperors new clothes.
(Answer) / Dishonest or simpleminded.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever been dishonest? How did you feel?
(10) / Who told the emperor he was wearing no clothes.
(Answer) / A young boy in the crowd.
(Follow Up) / Why would no body else tell him?
Activities
1. / Design a" real" set of new clothes for the emperor.
2. / Draw a picture of the emperor.
3. / Write a letter telling others of the emperor's new clothes.
4. / List the things the weavers used to make the emperors new clothes.
Introduction
1.  Show book cover. What is the story going to be about? Let's read about the emperors.
2.  Show pictures of clothes then hold up nothing. Which is the prettiest? Let's read about emperor's new clothes.
3.  Have fabric squares. Which would make the best cape for an emperor? Let's find out what kind the emperor got.

Book Title: The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes

Author: Janet Pearlman / Illustrator: Janet Pearlman
ISBN: 0-590-21174-9 / # of Text Pages: 25 AR: 4.5 LEX: 670
Building Oral Vocabulary
2 / afford / 6 / trusted / 8 / spectacles
Prediction Questions
5 / What do you think is going to happen?
8 / Will the emperor find out?
19 / What did they see?

This resource is made available by THE LEARNING CORPS-Barren County School system, an AmeriCorps program, funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community and Volunteer Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.