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Kofi and the Crooked Key

Read an original story about a key shop, then tell how the beginning sets up a problem and how the ending solves it.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.2.5

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students explain how the beginning of a story introduces the characters and the problem.
Students sort story events into the beginning, middle and end.
Students describe how the ending of a story solves the problem.

How to use

Read the story together, then have students answer on their own. Afterward, ask students to point to the paragraph where the problem starts and the one where it is solved.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.2.5

Describe the overall structure of a story, including how the beginning introduces it and how the ending concludes the action.

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Kofi and the Crooked Key

Tell how a story begins, builds and ends.

Read the story

Kofi and the Crooked Key

1Every Saturday, Kofi helped Aunt June at her key shop on Elm Street. One wall of the shop sparkled with shiny keys. One morning, Mr. Hill from the music store across the street hurried in. He held up a key bent almost in half. "I sat on it by mistake," he said. "Now it will not fit in my lock, and kids are coming for drum lessons at noon!"

2Aunt June pressed the bent key flat with her pliers. Then she clamped it into her key machine next to a blank key. The machine buzzed as it cut a new key with the same bumps.

3Kofi carried the new key across the street with Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill pushed it into the lock, but it stuck halfway. Kofi saw tiny rough bits along its edge. He raced back, and Aunt June rubbed the key with a small file until it was smooth.

4This time, the key slid in and turned with a soft click. The door swung open just as the first drummer arrived. Back at the shop at noon, Kofi heard drums booming across Elm Street. He smiled up at the wall of shiny keys.

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