Lesson objective:

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Lesson objective to describe and sequence key
incidents in a variety of ways how words change
when er, -est and y are added
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The Birth of the Rainbow An Indian Myth
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Long, long ago when the Earth was very young,
Indra the god of thunder, lightning and rain
called his carpenter to him. My big hunting bow
is broken, he said. I want a bigger bow. Make
me the biggest bow in the world. So the
carpenter set to work. When he had finished Indra
called his artist, Vishvakarma to him.
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Paint my bow with colours that have never before
been known in the kingdom of the gods, he
commanded. So Vishvakarma came down to Earth to
find new colours. Then he began to paint the bow
in stripes. The first stripe he painted violet
like the top of the Himalayan mountains at dawn.
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The second stripe he painted indigo like the dye
from the indigo plant.
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The third stripe he painted blue, like the neck
of a peacock.
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The fourth stripe he painted green, like the
unripe mango.
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The fifth stripe he painted yellow, like the fur
of a newly born tiger.
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The sixth stripe he painted orange, like the
stain of the juice of the mendhi plant.
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The seventh and last stripe he painted red, like
the flowers of the Ashoka tree in summer.
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Vishvakarma was very happy. He hung the bow to
dry in the sunshine. But the sun was too hot and
the wood began to crack. Vishvakarma begged Indra
to send rain to wet the bow and he let the rain
fall gently.
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All the children looked up at the bow in the sky.
Look at the rain bow, they said, with
joy. Vishvakarma told Indra. Please dry your
bow like this every time you use it. The best
weather is when the sun is shining through a
little rain. Then the colours in your bow will
remain bright forever. So every time Indra
dries his bow, a rainbow appears in the sky.