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Sefa and the Three Coconuts

Read an original Pacific island folktale about a boy who shares his coconuts, retell what happens and tell the lesson of the story.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.2.2

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students recount the beginning, middle and end of a folktale.
Students tell the central message of a folktale using details from the story.

How to use

Read the folktale together once, then have students reread it on their own and answer the questions, pointing to the paragraph that helps.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.2.2

Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and tell the central message, lesson, or moral.

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Sefa and the Three Coconuts

Retell a folktale and tell its lesson.

Read the folktale

Sefa and the Three Coconuts

1Long ago, on an island in the warm Pacific Ocean, there lived a boy named Sefa. One morning, Sefa climbed a tall palm tree and picked three round coconuts. He could carry only three in his arms. "One for me, one for Mother, and one for Grandfather," he said.

2On the path home, Sefa met an old woman resting under a tree. "I am so thirsty," she said. Sefa gave her a coconut. She drank the sweet coconut water and smiled.

3Next, Sefa met a little girl who was crying. She had dropped her coconut, and it had rolled into the sea. Sefa gave her a coconut too.

4Now Sefa had only one coconut left. He walked home slowly. When he reached his door, the old woman was waiting for him. She held out a basket that she had woven from palm leaves. "You shared with me," she said. "Now you can carry many coconuts."

5The next morning, Sefa filled the basket with coconuts. There were enough for his family and for every friend he met on the path.

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