Teacher's Notes: Beauty and the Beast

Students have a jumbled up version of the story that can be cut apart and placed on the pictures or numbered in the correct order. The pictures tell the story in order (1-4 in the first row, 5-8 in the second, and 9-12 in the third).

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woods
business trip
lost
wolves
chase
luckily
straight ahead
barely
hardly
around
cozy
beast
roar
terrified
basement
worried
hideous
frightened
release
beg
agree
free
forever
return
gentle
lonely
miss
promise
overjoyed
transform
handsome

Worksheet Answers

Story in order: 1. Beauty lived with her kind, old father … 2. One day their father went on a business trip … 3. He just barely escaped the wolves … 4. Suddenly a great beast appeared … 5. Beauty was worried about her father … 6. “Please release my father!” Beauty begged … 7. “You must stay with me forever,” … 8. Many, many days passed … 9. But Beauty missed her father … 10. Beauty was overjoyed … 11. She woke up quickly … 12. Suddenly something magical happened …

My Adventure in the Woods - Synonyms: First Group: 1. wolves, 2. chase, 3. woods, 4. worried, 5. roar; Second Group: 1. luckily, 2. entered, 3. hideous, 4. cozy, 5. terrified; Third Group: 1. frightened, 2. promise, 3. begged, 4. release, 5. agreed; Fourth Group: 1. transformed, 2. handsome, 3. missed, 4. overjoyed, 5. return; Fifth Group: 1. hopped, 2. lonely, 3. gently, 4. barking, 5. forever, 6. edge

Sentences: 1. barely, 2. get lost, 3. chasing, 4. returned, 5. promise, 6. terrified, 7. entered, 8. basement, 9. roared, 10. straight ahead, 11. worry, 12. released, 13. lonely, 14. begged, 15. miss, 16. transformed, 17. luckily, 18. around, 19. gentle, 20. agreed, 21. overjoyed, 22. free, 23. cozy, 24. frightened, 25. forever, 26. handsome

PICTURE REVIEW answers:
Set I: (left to right) attic (first arrow), nightmare, kingdom, basement (second arrow), disappointed, baby, child, teenager, adult, middle-aged, elderly, order, a spell, promise, greedy, serpent, chase, stairs, overjoyed, wolf, invitation
Set II: (left to right) enter, release, handsome, break, terrified, slipper, servant, catch, magic wand, throw, hideous, lonely, ruin, fairy, worried, fall, beg, angry, transform, drop, midnight, deep

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