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Gertie the Goose Comes to Recess

Read about a goose that visits a school field at recess, then tell apart close verbs like nibble and gobble and adjectives like grumpy and furious.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.2.5.b

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students tell apart the shades of meaning of closely related verbs.
Students tell apart the shades of meaning of closely related adjectives.

How to use

Read the story together and act out words like waddle, march and charge, then have students answer on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.5.b

Tell apart shades of meaning among closely related verbs (toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

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Gertie the Goose Comes to Recess

Tell apart words with close meanings.

Read the story

Read the story. Notice the words that tell how Gertie moves and eats.

Gertie the Goose Comes to Recess

1One spring morning, a big gray goose waddled onto the school field. The kids at recess named her Gertie. "Look at that goose," Pema whispered to Hollis.

2At first, Gertie only nibbled a few blades of grass. Then she found a dropped cracker and gobbled it up in one big gulp.

3Hollis tossed a ball gently to Pema, but it bounced near Gertie. The goose flapped her wings and honked. Then she charged at the ball, running fast with her neck stretched out!

4Pema giggled behind her hand. Mr. Ostrowski, the recess teacher, smiled. "She is not furious," he said. "She is just curious."

5When the bell rang, everyone strolled back inside. From the window, the class watched Gertie march off across the field, as proud as a queen.

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