Elementary Level. Worksheet. Macmillan Readers. The Legends of Sleepy
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Elementary Level
ELEMENTARY LEVEL
The Legends of of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle The Legends Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving
A Before Reading
1 ALook at the front cover of the book. Write as many words as you can describing what you Before Reading can see. Write adjectives and nouns. 1
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Look at the front cover of the book. Write as many words as you can describing what you can see. Write adjectives and nouns. Read about the stories on the back cover of the book. Here are some chapter headings
fromRead theabout two stories. Which headings belong to which story? the stories on the back cover of the book. Here are some chapter headings from the two
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stories. Which headings belong to which story?
The Ghost of the Soldier The Spirits of the Catskills Ichabod andofKatrina from of the The Ghost the SoldierDown The Spirits theMountain Catskills Ichabod and Katrina
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Down from the Mountain
The Legend of Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Rip Van Winkle
B After Reading Each Story B While Reading
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 3 Read to the top of page 32. What you think happened THE do LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOWto Ichabod Crane? 3
Read to the top of page 32. What do you think happened to Ichabod Crane?
4 Whenever people talked about Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones always laughed loudly. Why did Whenever people talked about Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones always laughed loudly. Why did Brom 4 Brom Bones laugh? Make a guess. Bones laugh? Make a guess.
THE LEGEND OFRIP RIP VAN WINKLE THE LEGEND OF VAN WINKLE at these pictures. 5 5LookLook at these pictures. For each picture: For each picture: do you recognize? (a) Who (a) Who do you recognize? a short dialogue (b) Write between two ofdialogue the people. (b) Write a short (It doesn’t have to be between two of the people. exactly the same as a (It doesn’t haveintothebestory. exactly dialogue But it must with the events the same as fit a dialogue in theof the story and the way that story. But it must fit with the people behave.) events of the story and the way that people behave.)
6 This is a list of people who appear in this story. Who are they? (a) Rip Van Winkle (b) Nicholas Vedder (c) Rip Van Winkle 6 (d)This is a list of people who appear thisVan story. Who are they?(f) Derrick Van Bummel Judith Gardenier (e) inRip Winkle (a) Rip Van Winkle (b) Nicholas Vedder (c) Rip Van Winkle (g) Hendrick Hudson (d) Judith Gardenier (g) Hendrick Hudson
(e) Rip Van Winkle
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(f ) Derrick Van Bummel
C After Reading Both Stories
Choose (a) Choose (a)oror(b). (b). (a) You fall asleep for twenty years not far from your house. Write the story of what happens when (a) You fall asleep for twenty years not far from your house. Write the story of what you wake up and go back to your village, town or city. youinwake and town go back towho yourtells village, town city.been asleep for (b) happens You meet when a stranger your up village, or city you that theyorhave (b) You meet a stranger your townwith or city who tells they have twenty years. Write the in story of village, your meeting this stranger andyou the that conversations youbeen have with them. asleep for twenty years. Write the story of your meeting with this stranger and the conversations you have with them.
Write a conversation between Katrina Van Tassel and her friends. The conversation happens during the party at her house. What do they say about Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones?
8 Write a conversation between Katrina Van Tassel and her friends. The conversation happens 9 Complete this Wordsearch. There are twenty words to find, horizontally, diagonally during the party at her house. What do they say about Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones? and vertically .
9 Complete Make threethis lists.Wordsearch. There are twenty words to find, horizontally , diagonally (a) Words in both and vertically .stories. Make three lists. (a) Words in both stories (b) Words in The Legend of (b) Words in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow only. Sleepy Hollow only (c) Words in The Legend of Rip Van Winkle only. (c) Words in The Legend of Rip Van Winkle only.