Answer the following questions and share them with your teacher and classmates. (a) Have you ever flown a kite or seen someone fly it? Where? When? (b) Describe the kite—colour(s), shape, design of tail, any other detail. (c) What did you think when you saw the kite up in the sky?
Yes, I have seen kites being flown during the kite festival on Makar Sankranti in January at the local park. The sky was filled with hundreds of colourful kites.
The kite was diamond-shaped with bright red and yellow colours. It had a long tail with colourful ribbons attached that fluttered in the wind. The frame was made of thin bamboo sticks.
When I saw the kite up in the sky, I felt amazed at how high it could fly and wished I could also soar up there with it, just like the child in the poem wishes.
Explanation
(a) Students share personal experiences of kite flying, connecting to the chapter's theme. (b) This prepares students to notice descriptive details in the poem. (c) This question connects to the poem's central theme of wishing to fly like a kite.