The Only Watermelon: Reading and Comprehension
Read a story about temptation and forgiveness, then answer five questions about the characters’ choices and what happens next.
- Grades
- Grades 2–4
- Pages
- 3
- File type
- Subject
- Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science, Reading, ELA
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Ontario expectations
- C3.2 — make simple inferences using stated
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About this resource
This Watermelon Reading Comprehension Worksheet is a great way for students to practice their reading comprehension skills. The worksheet includes a short story about Mary and Mina, a stolen watermelon and the farmer’s forgiving response, followed by questions to test students' understanding of the text. This is a great resource for teachers looking to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Explain how hardship influences a character’s decision
- Connect forgiveness with a later change in behaviour
Teaching tips
- Use a cause-and-effect chain to separate the difficult circumstances, the choice, the farmer’s response, and the lasting consequence.
Skills covered
- Narrative comprehension — Trace motivation and consequence
- Character change — Relate compassion to later actions
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Ontario curriculum
Ontario curriculum expectations
Ontario expectations
Ontario expectations
- C3.2 — make simple inferences using stated and implied information and ideas to understand simple texts
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Poverty and temptation
- Forgiveness
- Behaviour change
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