Moana Reading Comprehension Activities Bundle

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What's inside this resource

Moana Reading Comprehension Activities Bundle is a 27-page download full of worksheets to pair with the Disney movie Moana. From reading to comprehension to grammar skills, your students will enjoy these activities based on the popular movie.

Worksheets included:

1. Reading Comprehension Questions x2
2. Lyrics Review
3. Maui Graphic Organizer
4. Compare and Contrast Questions x2
5. Compare and Contrast Paragraph Writing
6. Find the Root Words
7. Find the Prefixes
8. Find the Suffixes
9. Moana and Context Clues x2
10. Synonyms
11. Antonyms

Answer keys are included.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Answer multiple-choice comprehension questions about a text by referring back to specific details in the lyrics.
Compare and contrast Disney's portrayal of Maui with the Polynesian legend using a graphic organizer and multiple-choice questions.
Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting two versions of a story using transitional words and phrases.

Teaching tips

Have students search and listen to "The True Story of Moana Review Song for Kids - Rap Opera for Kids" on YouTube before reading the printed lyrics, as the worksheet instructs.
Complete the compare-and-contrast graphic organizer before assigning the two multiple-choice compare-and-contrast worksheets, since those questions draw on the organizer.
Keep the printed lyrics (pages 3-4) available throughout the packet, since nearly every later worksheet — root words, prefixes, suffixes, context clues, synonyms, and antonyms — pulls its example sentences directly from those lyrics.

Skills covered

Reading comprehension — students answer multiple-choice questions that require recalling specific details from the song lyrics, such as what Maui is said to have done.
Compare-and-contrast analysis — students use a graphic organizer, multiple-choice questions, and a written paragraph to compare Disney's Maui with the Polynesian legend.
Morphology (root words, prefixes, suffixes) — students identify the root word, prefix, or suffix inside underlined words like "inaccurately" and "cooperation."

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do the vocabulary worksheets (root words, prefixes, context clues, synonyms) use their own separate sentences, or the same lyrics throughout?

The same lyrics throughout — every vocabulary worksheet in the packet pulls its example sentences directly from "The True Story of Moana Review" song, so students keep working with the same text instead of switching passages.

Is the compare-and-contrast content based on the actual Disney movie, or just the included song?

It's based on the included original song, which itself compares Disney's film version of Maui to the Polynesian legend — students work entirely from the printed lyrics rather than needing to have seen the movie.

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Core concepts

reading comprehension
compare and contrast
root words and affixes
context clues
synonyms and antonyms

Topics

Disney movie reading comprehension compare and contrast Moana graphic organizers moana activities

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