Teacher's Notes: Happily Ever After
Like The Lost Treasure, this story is one with multiple endings in which the reader makes choices throughout the story. It also has odd-numbered pages on one side and even on the other, to allow for back-to-back copying if desired. At the beginning of this tale, the students choose their character: a knight, a princess or a frog. From there, they wind around in the story until they come to an end. Then, they start over and try another path. As before, this story can be read together as a class or in smaller groups. However, Happily Ever After has a higher level of vocabulary than The Lost Treasure. The new words will have to be familiar to the students to understand the story.
New Words
change your mind
however
rescue
exactly
tower
in order to
actually
sword
trust
tree stump
hurry
crash
choice
cover
melt
bite
nod
after all
mind (don’t mind)
certainly
keep (a promise)
cabin
in trouble
way (path)
truly
turn around
honest
dishonest
grab
furious
hop
point
glare
liar
middle
attack
rock
cave
foolish
lick
confident
familiar
kneel
empty
Worksheet Answers
Sentences: 1. rescue, 2. however, 3. sword, 4. hurry, 5. choice, 6. exactly, 7. in order to, 8. trust, 9. covered, 10. in trouble, 11. actually, 12. tree stump, 13. crashed, 14. melt, 15. bite, 16. foolish, 17. grabbed, 18. attack, 19. turned around, 20. brave, 21. way, 22. hopped, 23. guilty, 24. certainly, 25. licked, 26. honest, 27. cave, 28. kneel, 29. pointed, 30. nodded, 31. captured, 32. waste, 33. transformed, 34. furious, 35. howling, 36. cage, 37. knight, 38. helmet, 39. magic wand, 40. bog, 41. exhausted, 42. spell
