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Short Story Examples, Our New Home Lesson

ESL reading lesson built around Our New Home, an A2-level short story with vocabulary research, true-or-false comprehension questions and open-ended discussion prompts.
Grades
Grades 3–12, Elementary, Not Grade Specific, Adult Education, High School, Middle School
Pages
5
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 02, 2026

Subject
ELA, Reading
Topic
short story, reading passage
Resource types
Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans
Answer key
Included

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What's inside this resource

Our New Home Short Story Lesson Plan for ESL ELA ELL students. Introduce your students to the pre-intermediate short story "Our New Home" with this engaging English language arts lesson plan. Through rich discussion questions and comprehension activities, learners analyze plot, characters, and central themes of this literary text. Then, grammar exercises assess and build skills from the narrative. Implementation ideas within the resource guide educators to customize sessions for whole-class, small-group, or individual assignments. This versatile short story analysis unit integrates reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar standards into one interdisciplinary package for upper elementary students.

  • Includes an answer key

  • Makes it easier than ever for educators to evaluate student responses accurately

  • Eases manual workload on teachers when assessing responses delivered using traditional or conventional methods.

The package consists of three PDFs with four ready-to-print pages along with one digital access file. With its emphasis on what you can find in a new property, it injects a dose of fun into everyday schooling while imparting valuable educational content.

In terms of implementation, there's room for flexibility depending on class size or individual learner preferences: whole group setting inclusion, where all learners navigate through collectively; small-sized subsection utilization, allowing more intimate discussion amongst peers; traditional homework assignments that encourage independence in learning.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Answer true-or-false questions about a short story
  • Discuss the meaning of new vocabulary words
  • Identify possessive forms in a text

Teaching tips

  • Using the Google Apps copy requires a Google account.

Skills covered

  • Reading comprehension — students judge true-or-false statements about the story
  • Vocabulary research — students look up and discuss five words from the story
  • Grammar noticing — students locate possessive forms in the text

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Short story
  • Vocabulary
  • Possessives
  • ESL
  • A2 level

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