Timmy’s Lonely Night

Suggested grades (Canada): Grades 2 or 3; ELL, grades 3 or 4; ESL, CLB 4 (fluent basic)

This educational resource includes:

• Original “Timmy’s Lonely Night” story by Kim T. Harrison
• Pre- and post-reading questions
• Choice of 3 post-reading activities
• Printable worksheets for all activities, including points and rubrics for assessment purposes
• PowerPoint with video embedded, Google Slides
• Video of story

Curriculum tie-ins: Science: animals (movement, behaviours); Language/Skills: creative writing, inference, critical thinking, verbs (past simple), indefinite pronouns (no one, anyone, everyone, someone, something)

Topic tie-in: Halloween

I hope you find this resource useful. If you have any comments or feedback on the resource, please let me know. I’d love to hear from you.

Watch a video of the “Timmy’s Lonely Night” story here (3 minutes):

Download a PowerPoint version of the resource (note: the YouTube video link is embedded in the PowerPoint.):

Download a PDF, black & white, printable version of the resource (includes assessment rubrics for text response and creative writing activities):

Make a copy of the Google Slides version of the resource:

Please note: you will be prompted to save the Google Slides as a “copy” when you click on the link below.

Happy teaching!

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