# Grandma’s Bag of Stories”

- Link: https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/
- Published: 2026-10-30T02:32:16+05:30
- Author: MAHENDRA MANCHIKALAPATI

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Grandma’s Bag of Stories"

✦Sudha Murty · Reading companion

# Grandma’s Bag of Stories"

Choose one tale from Sudha Murty’s collection and explore a storyteller’s voice,
meaningful details, and the questions a story leaves behind.

📖 Read together🍃 Ages 5–11✨ Discussing a tale and its telling

[Open reading guide ](https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/#sf-story-text)
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![A grandmother and two children invent a story using original picture cards of 
a key, a kite, and a clay bowl beside a closed unmarked book.](https://thecuriosi.
com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/grandmas-bag-story-cards-activity.png)

**Take turns telling and wondering**Read together · Retell · Imagine

Bring your book and read together

A book to read together

## Grandma’s Bag of Stories"

Original prompts to use with your copy.

This original Curiosi companion is for Grandma’s Bag of Stories by Sudha Murty. 
Choose one tale from a family or library copy and read it together, returning for
another tale in a later sitting. Check your edition’s title page for its illustrator
or other contributor credits. These prompts help you discuss the book alongside 
your copy.

Step one

### Choose a tale and a question

Browse the contents in your copy and choose one tale together. Read its title and
invite one question about what you may discover. Notice who wrote the collection
and which illustration credits appear in your edition. Agree on a comfortable stopping
point so one reading session does not have to cover the whole book.

Step two

### Notice how the telling sounds

While reading, pause at a detail that catches the child’s attention. Is it a description,
a character’s voice, a surprising comparison, or something in the picture? Ask what
effect it has. The child can explain in their own words rather than copying a passage.
Listen for how the telling shapes the atmosphere of this particular tale.

Step three

### Talk about a choice and its effect

After the tale, choose a decision or question to discuss. Which detail helped you
understand it? Consider who is affected and whether another reader might see the
choice differently. You can enjoy a tale without agreeing with every action in it.
In a later sitting, compare one feature with a second tale, without needing to retell
the whole collection.

Step four

### Invent a tale with three cards

Draw three everyday objects on separate cards: a key, a kite, and a clay bowl. Arrange
them in any order and invent your own short tale connecting them. Let a partner 
ask one question that helps you add a detail. Trade turns as teller and listener.
Keep the new characters and events your own, rather than adapting a story from the
book.

Your turn to read

### Reading path

[01Choose a tale and a question](https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/#sf-chapter-1)
[02Notice how the telling sounds](https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/#sf-chapter-2)
[03Talk about a choice and its effect](https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/#sf-chapter-3)
[04Invent a tale with three cards](https://thecuriosi.com/english-language-lab-for-kids/stories-for-kids/grandma-and-make-believe-prompts/grandmas-bag-of-stories/#sf-chapter-4)

### Word basket

**tale**a story told or written for others

**atmosphere**the feeling created by a place or story

**detail**a small part that helps describe or explain something

**teller**someone who shares a story

**About this reading companion**

An independent Curiosi reading companion. The prompts, vocabulary explanations, 
and activities are original and designed for use alongside a family or library copy.
The new illustration depicts the companion activity. The official link provides 
book information and creator credits.

Official book details: [Penguin Random House India: Grandma’s Bag of Stories by Sudha Murty](https://www.penguin.co.in/book/grandmas-bag-of-stories/)

## Keep the conversation going

There is no single right answer. Invite young readers to notice, wonder and imagine.

Remember

Which detail caught your attention in your chosen tale?

Think

How did the way it was told affect the mood?

Imagine

What question helped you develop your own card story?

**Make something:** Change the order of your three object cards and invent a different
beginning. Ask a partner what changed about the mood or the character’s goal.

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