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Little Moose, Long Legs

Read a story about a young moose with three pictures described in words, and explain how the pictures set the mood and show his feelings.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.7

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
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 an illustration sets the mood of a story.
Students explain how an illustration shows a character's feelings and traits.
Students tell which details come from the words and which come from the pictures.

How to use

Read the story and the three picture descriptions aloud, and ask students to picture each scene in their heads. Then let students answer on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.7

Explain how a story's illustrations add to its words, such as by setting a mood or stressing a trait of a character or setting.

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Little Moose, Long Legs

See how pictures add mood and feelings to a story.

Read the story and the pictures

This story has three pictures. Each picture is described in words below the story.

Little Moose, Long Legs

1Bo was a young moose who lived near a wide marsh in the north woods. His legs were so long that they seemed to belong to someone else. When he walked, his knees knocked together, and when he ran, he tripped over his own hooves.

2One summer evening, Bo's mother waded into the marsh. "Come along," she said. "The sweetest willow leaves grow on the little island." Bo looked at the dark water. It was wide, and he could not see the bottom. "I'll wait here," he said in a small voice.

3His mother kept walking. Soon she was only a brown shape among the reeds. The sun sank behind the trees, and a loon called across the marsh. Bo stood alone on the muddy bank.

4Bo took one step into the cool water, and then another. The mud squished under his hooves. To his surprise, his long legs reached all the way to the bottom, and his head stayed high above the water. Step by step, he waded toward the island.

5When he climbed onto the shore, his mother was waiting. She nuzzled his ear. "These long legs are good for something after all," Bo said, and he munched a mouthful of willow leaves.

Picture A (goes with paragraph 1): Bo stands in a sunny clearing with his four long legs tangled in a knot. His ears droop, and his cheeks are pink. Two chipmunks on a log point at him and giggle.

Picture B (goes with paragraph 3): The marsh is dark purple and black. Tall reeds tower over Bo like a fence. His mother is a tiny shape far across the water. Only one thin stripe of orange is left in the sky.

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