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Short Story Reading Comprehension with Compound Nouns & Past Modals Grades 5-8
Short Story Reading Comprehension with Compound Nouns & Past Modals Grades 5-8
Short Story Reading Comprehension with Compound Nouns & Past Modals Grades 5-8
Short Story Reading Comprehension with Compound Nouns & Past Modals Grades 5-8
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Short Story Reading Comprehension with Compound Nouns & Past Modals Grades 5-8

Uncover the mysteries of the jungle while boosting reading and grammar skills! This engaging lesson combines thrilling short stories with targeted grammar practice in compound nouns and past modals. With a gradual release approach, students build comprehension, critical thinking, and creative writing abilities. Perfect for independent learners or guided classroom instruction.

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This reading comprehension resource uses lots of activities for practicing both reading and grammar:

  • prediction activity
  • main idea, gist, and detailed reading comprehension questions
  • class discussions
  • critical thinking questions
  • compound noun exercises & tasks
  • past modal verbs exercises & tasks
  • creative writing

All the activities and tasks are woven into the design of the pages, so your students will be more easily immersed in the content.

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ABOUT THE READING

Written around the theme of a hidden temple in a jungle, your students will read three different fictional short stories and answer a variety main idea, gist, and critical thinking questions. The lesson, designed around a slow-release formula that challenges your learners’ development without overwhelming them, can be given independently as self-study, or used as an entire scaffolded classroom lesson.

This resource also includes grammar activities & tasks on compound nouns and past modal verbs. Each section offers many opportunities for your students to experiment with the grammar and use it in context with the theme of the jungle.

At the end of the lesson, your students get to write creatively using an activity that has them finishing the ending of one of the short stories and solving the mystery of the hidden temple.

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This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with a lesson plan and student workbook pages.

You’ll get three ways to use this reading resource:

  • printable high-resolution pages
  • printable gray-scaled pages for easy printing
  • AND digital access for distance learning Google Slides®

Looking for lessons with a similar theme to this? Check out my Closed Cultural Reading Lesson on Phnom Penh, Cambodia here!

See my Reader’s Theatre Mini-Play for practicing Past Modal Verbs.

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Terms of Use:

This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses. Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.

Standards

Where applicable, the CCSS standards for this resource are listed here:

CCSSRI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
CCSSRI.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSSRI.8.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRI.8.3
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
CCSSRI.8.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSSRF.5.4a
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSSCCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
CCSSCCRA.R.9
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
CCSSCCRA.R.10
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
CCSSCCRA.L.3
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
CCSSCCRA.L.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
CCSSCCRA.L.6
Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.

Additional Information

Total Pages – 15

Answer Key – Included

Teacher Duration – 2 Hours

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        • Then, try the printing again.
        • A solution that has also worked in the past is selecting & printing from the PDF only the pages you want to print, instead of printing the whole PDF document.
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While the experience of each lesson will vary depending on the teacher, class demographic and other key variables, many lessons plans ESL Lifeline provides have been written to extend past a single class session. To get the most out of all the content in each lesson plan and all the materials, always consider the pacing of your particular class and how students are responding to the lesson in the moment. For language learning, it is often beneficial to revisit certain parts of a lesson to reinforce concepts and check comprehension. Extending skill lessons into even small, more manageable chunks is also a good strategy to ensure all learners in your class are able to access the content.

Many of the lessons and activities offer extension activities for productive follow-ups that take the subject and language even further. If you are looking to extend or, even, differentiate the learning, it is recommended to use these activities.

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