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The Adventures of Pinocchio in 4 Weeks: A Reading Schedule

A four-week plan for reading The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, one section a week. Each week gives the reading, a short summary of what happens, three discussion questions and the escape room that goes with it. For grades 3–6, in class or at home.

Pacing

At the grammar stage (grades 3–6) short, regular readings work better than long ones. Many families read aloud together and ask children to tell back what they heard before talking about the questions. Each week covers one section; if a section feels long, take two weeks over it and keep the escape room for the end.

Each week ends with an escape room on that week's reading: seven self-checking locks that run in any browser, with no logins, and progress is saved, so a room can be finished another day. Every room has free taster locks to try, and members can open them all.

Print this schedule Escape rooms on The Adventures of Pinocchio

Week 1: Chapters 1–9

Read: Chapters 1–9

A talking piece of wood comes to the old woodcarver Geppetto, who carves it into a puppet called Pinocchio. Pinocchio ignores the Cricket's warning, loses an egg that flies away, burns his feet, and sells his school book for a ticket to the puppet show.

Discussion questions

1. Why does Pinocchio ignore the Cricket?
2. What does Geppetto give up for Pinocchio?
3. Why is selling the school book such a bad choice?

Escape room: The Talking Log (lockedlessons.com/rooms/pinocchio-chapters-1-9/)

Week 2: Chapters 10–18

Read: Chapters 10–18

At the puppet show Pinocchio wins a gift of gold for Geppetto, but the Fox and the Cat lead him astray and robbers chase him through the wood. The Fairy with blue hair rescues him and calls three doctors, and his nose grows with every lie.

Discussion questions

1. Why does Pinocchio trust the Fox and the Cat?
2. What does the Fairy do when he lies?
3. Why does Pinocchio keep making the same mistakes?

Escape room: The Puppet Show (lockedlessons.com/rooms/pinocchio-chapters-10-18/)

Week 3: Chapters 19–27

Read: Chapters 19–27

The Fox and the Cat steal the gold, and a judge sends the victim, Pinocchio, to prison. Caught in a trap among the grapes, he spends a night on guard for a farmer, flies to the sea, promises the Fairy to be good, goes to school and is drawn into a fight on the beach.

Discussion questions

1. What is unfair about the judge?
2. What does Pinocchio learn on guard for the farmer?
3. Why does he find it hard to keep his promise to the Fairy?

Escape room: The Long Way Home (lockedlessons.com/rooms/pinocchio-chapters-19-27/)

Week 4: Chapters 28–36

Read: Chapters 28–36

The Green Fisherman catches Pinocchio, and a slow Snail keeps him waiting at the Fairy's door. He runs off to the land of play, where boys turn into donkeys, works in a circus, finds a prisoner inside the great fish, and by hard work at last changes everything.

Discussion questions

1. Why does the land of play turn boys into donkeys?
2. How does Pinocchio change once he finds his father again?
3. What does the book say makes a good son?

Escape room: Inside the Great Fish (lockedlessons.com/rooms/pinocchio-chapters-28-36/)

Nothing in this schedule is quoted from any translation, so it can sit beside whichever one your class reads.