Worksheet
Elementary Level
ELEMENTARY LEVEL
The Legends of of
Sleepy
Hollow and Rip
Van Winkle
The Legends
Sleepy
Hollow
by Washington Irving
and Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
A Before Reading
1 ALook
at the
front cover of the book. Write as many words as you can describing what you
Before
Reading
can see. Write adjectives and nouns.
1
2
Look at the front cover of the book. Write as many words as you can describing what you can see.
Write
adjectives
and nouns.
Read
about
the stories
on the back cover of the book. Here are some chapter headings
fromRead
theabout
two stories.
Which headings belong to which story?
the stories on the back cover of the book. Here are some chapter headings from the two
2
stories. Which headings belong to which story?
The Ghost of the Soldier The Spirits of the Catskills
Ichabod
andofKatrina
from of
the
The Ghost
the SoldierDown
The Spirits
theMountain
Catskills
Ichabod and Katrina
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Down from the Mountain
The Legend of Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Rip Van Winkle
B After Reading Each Story
B While Reading
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
3 Read to the top of page 32. What
you think
happened
THE do
LEGEND
OF SLEEPY
HOLLOWto Ichabod Crane?
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Read to the top of page 32. What do you think happened to Ichabod Crane?
4 Whenever people talked about Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones always laughed loudly. Why did
4
Whenever people talked about Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones always laughed loudly. Why did Brom
Brom Bones laugh? Make a guess.
Bones laugh? Make a guess.
THE LEGEND
OFRIP
RIP VAN
WINKLE
THE LEGEND
OF
VAN
WINKLE
at these pictures.
5 5LookLook
at these
pictures.
For each picture:
For each
picture:
(a) Who
do you recognize?
(a) Who
do you
recognize?
(b) Write
a short
dialogue
between
two ofdialogue
the people.
(b) Write
a short
(It doesn’t have to be
between two of the people.
exactly the same as a
(It doesn’t
haveintothebestory.
exactly
dialogue
But it
must
with the events
the same
as fit
a dialogue
in theof
the story and the way that
story. But it must fit with the
people behave.)
events of the story and the
way that people behave.)
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6 This is a list of people who appear in this story. Who are they?
(a) Rip Van Winkle
(b) Nicholas Vedder
(c) Rip Van Winkle
6 (d)This
is a list
of people who appear
thisVan
story.
Who are they?(f) Derrick Van Bummel
Judith
Gardenier
(e) inRip
Winkle
(a) Rip Van Winkle
(b) Nicholas Vedder
(c) Rip Van Winkle
(g) Hendrick Hudson
(d) Judith Gardenier
(g) Hendrick Hudson
(e) Rip Van Winkle
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(f ) Derrick Van Bummel
C After Reading Both Stories
Choose (a)
Choose
(a)oror(b).
(b).
(a) You fall asleep for twenty years not far from your house. Write the story of what happens when
(a) You fall asleep for twenty years not far from your house. Write the story of what
you wake up and go back to your village, town or city.
youinwake
and town
go back
towho
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village,
town
city.been asleep for
(b) happens
You meet when
a stranger
your up
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or city
you that
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(b) You
meet
a stranger
your
townwith
or city
who tells
they have
twenty
years.
Write the in
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of village,
your meeting
this stranger
andyou
the that
conversations
youbeen
have
with
them.
asleep for twenty years. Write the story of your meeting with this stranger and the
conversations you have with them.
Write a conversation between Katrina Van Tassel and her friends. The conversation happens during the
party at her house. What do they say about Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones?
8 Write a conversation between Katrina Van Tassel and her friends. The conversation happens
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Complete this Wordsearch. There are twenty words to find, horizontally,
diagonally
during
the party at her house. What do they say about Ichabod Crane and
Brom Bones?
and vertically .
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lists.Wordsearch. There are twenty words to find, horizontally , diagonally (a) Words
in both
and
vertically
.stories.
Make three lists. (a) Words in both stories (b) Words in The Legend of
(b) Words in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow only.
Sleepy
Hollow only (c) Words in The Legend of Rip Van Winkle only.
(c) Words in The Legend of Rip Van Winkle only.
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