Guided Reading - Midas Touch Day 1

Midas Touch

Let's go over our whole group questions .

The Midas Touch

Tricky Words :

slightest - smallest

eager - excited to do something

crept - to move slowly towards something

pitcher - a large container for holding liquid

The Midas Touch - Read to Find out questions

• How would you describe King Midas

• What was King Midas trying to do ?

• What w as the end of result of his actions?

• Did King Midas learn a lesson based on this.

• Is Author using King Midas as a good example or a non - example?

Our Goal is to find the theme . We do this by looking at the problem and the solution, or what the character does about the problem.

• If the ending or solution is positive then we learn to be like this character

• If the ending is negative we learn not be like this character

Open Ended

How would you describe King Midas in the beginning of the story .

Multiple Select

What was King Midas trying to do in the beginning of the story .

• Have Breakfast with his daughter, his favorite human being in the world.

• Have everything turn into Gold.

• Build up the wealth of his Kingdom

Multiple Select

What did King Midas learn ?

• to be more careful with his wishes

• There are more important things in this world than Gold.

• Greed will only lead you to losing the most important things.

• Sneaky voices are trying to trick you into bad situations.

Open Ended

IF KING MIDAS WAS A GREEDIER PERSON, HOW DO YOU THINK THE STORY WOULD'VE ENDED?