Finish Me! Story
Super-Fun Reading & Writing Skill Builders © Scholastic Teaching Resources
Name
Two at the Zoo
Don’t read this story yet! Give it to a partner and ask him or her to tell you the parts of speech under the blanks below. You give a word for each part of speech, and your partner writes it in the blank. Then he or she writes the words in the story and reads the story aloud. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
The whole thing was an accident. My friend FRIEND’S NAME
and I just wanted to spend a
1 ADJECTIVE
day at the
2 YOUR TOWN
FRIEND’S NAME
Who knew that on a
and bump into the
5
cage? The door sprang open, and
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ADJECTIVE
NOUN
VERB
the
creature inside, which was
7
eating a
went nuts! I’ve never seen an animal
ADJECTIVE
VERB
NOUN
9
like that before! The zookeeper came out with a giant to catch the
10
FRIEND’S NAME
, ran out of the cage. It
8
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
would slip
4
NOUN
ANIMAL
Zoo.
3
11
beast. The zookeeper’s eyesight wasn’t good. He caught
instead. Don’t worry—
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my friend now lives in a and can with a
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cage
all day long, or even play . 29