These Worksheets with Answers are perfect for teaching Reading Comprehension through a Folklore Fable - The Discontented Fish. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement.
After completing this New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:
- Find the meaning of the challenging words and expressions in the story.
- Identify the key events of the story.
- Use textual clues to answer the retrieval and inferential questions.
- Analyse the story to find its plot elements – exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
- Evaluate the text to find its story elements – genre, message, speaker, point of view, tone, conflict type, authorial techniques, plot type, language register, purpose and style.
- Write a summary, make a character description and create a critical appreciation of the story.
This Download Includes:
- EXERCISE 1: Match the WORDS (1-11) with their MEANINGS (A-K).
- EXERCISE 2: The author uses different descriptions to describe the pool and the discontented fish in the pool as well as in the river. Sort the descriptions into the correct columns.
- EXERCISE 3: Order the events that happened in the life of the discontented fish as mentioned in the story.
- EXERCISE 4: Read the sentences about the discontented fish and decide if they are ‘True’ or ‘False’.
- EXERCISE 5: Match the CAUSES (1-8) of the EFFECTS (A-H) when the discontented fish arrived in the big river and returned.
- EXERCISE 6: Identify the different feelings that the discontented fish would have at different points during the story. Why would he feel these different emotions?
- EXERCISE 7: Answer the following retrieval questions.
- EXERCISE 8: Answer the following simple inferential questions.
- EXERCISE 9: Answer the following complex inferential questions.
- EXERCISE 10: Follow Freytag’s Pyramid to identify the plot elements of the story.
- EXERCISE 11: Follow the analysis guide to identify the story elements the story.
- EXERCISE 12: Answer the following questions to demonstrate your understanding of story elements.
- EXERCISE 13: Briefly summarise the meaning of the story. Use the plot elements to write your summary. Follow the following prompt.
- EXERCISE 14: Follow the prompt to make a critical appreciation of the poem.
- EXERCISE 15: Follow the characterisation guide to describe the character of the discontented fish, based on what you learn in the story.
- EXERCISE 16: Make a diary entry as if you were the discontented fish, reflecting on your feelings about what you don’t like about the pool, why you want to leave and what you hope to find.
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