Teacher's Notes: The Lost Treasure
This story lets students make choices while they read as to what they want their character to do in the story. By following the page numbers of their choices, they will eventually find an ending – sometimes good, but more often than not, bad! Their goal in the story is to find the hidden treasure. Of course, students will have to back up or start over many times to find the treasure. This activity can be done as a group, in small groups, or individually, or with a combination of these. It works well to start off together as a group, taking a class vote to decide where to go next. After one or more times through the story as a group, it may be more enjoyable to let students work alone or in partners to explore other paths in the story. (Note: the pages are numbered in a strange way – all the odd-numbered pages are on one side, all the evens on another. This is so if one was so ambitious as to copy the pages exactly back to back and cut them apart, they would create a double-sided mini book.) The new vocab in this story is easily represented pictorially, and so the worksheets following the story are word-to-picture matching. The new words are mostly nouns, making them easy to pick up in the context of the story. The illustrations in the story help greatly with understanding context.
New Words
trumpet
treasure
cemetery
cloudy
lightning
grave
cave
ghost
path
weapon
search
bow and arrow
crawl
share
lantern
dig
trip (to trip and fall)
bone
nest
wind
bite
voice
insect
break
sword
dragon
fire
hospital
Worksheet Answers
Match with pictures: (left to right) trumpet, cemetery, grave, cloudy, weapons (all), bow and arrow (first arrow), sword (second arrow), dig, ghost, treasure, dragon, lightning, bite
Match with pictures (second page): (left to right) cave, path, bones, crawl, share, insects, nest, trip, lantern, fire, break
Match the words with their definitions: D., H., G., K., L., J., E., A., M., I., B., F., C.
