Fitzgerald’s Create-a-Story · Use your imagination and choose 18 of the words below to create...
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Fitzgerald’s Create-a-Story
Be like Fitzgerald! Use your imagination and choose 18 of the words below to create any story you like. Circle the words used in your written story.
Use the back of this page and add any additional pages you might need.
linguine jukebox catastrophe parka clamor incredible
thermosphere shuttle impostor villain swashbuckler
buccaneer sensational ambiguous stupendous habitat
opportunity juggle incredible happenstance yield
Name: ____________________
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The Ambiguous Alien
The night of Ebenezer and Fitzgerald’s first sleepover was __________________ and adjective __________________, when they heard mysterious sounds coming from Ebenezer’s backyard. They
adjective
quickly _________________ out of their beds and dashed outside to see what could be causing such a verb (past tense)
ruckus. They couldn’t believe their _____________________! A huge spaceship had landed right in the body part middle of Ebenezer’s ____________________ and they could see an alien sitting right inside! They noun ___________________forward to get a closer look, when they noticed that this creature looked nothing verb (past tense)
like they had ever seen before. This was definitely one ambiguous alien! Fitzgerald was so ___________________ because he couldn’t wait to write a story about what he saw, but Ebenezer adjective
was _____________________. He would rather be ___________________ than trying to talk to this adjective verb (ing) alien. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald wouldn’t give up. He ___________________ over to the door of the verb (past tense) spaceship and started to yell, “_________________________!”
exclamation Suddenly, the door started to lower and a __________________, _________________ alien
adjective color
walked towards them. Fitzgerald walked right up to the alien to introduce himself, when all of the
sudden the alien changed form! Now it was a _________________, ________________ creature with adjective color
_________________, _________________! The boys were so ___________________ that they almost number body part adjective ran away. Before they could leave, the alien smiled at them and said, “Hello, my name is
____________________ , the ambiguous alien. They call me that because I change shape so much, so it name
is unclear what species I belong to.” Now, Fitzgerald and Ebenezer realized the alien was very
Fitzgerald’s Fill-in-the-Blank Fill in the blanks with a word of your choice to finish the story!
Name: ____________________
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_____________________, so they decided it would be kind of them to invite him for a adjective ______________________ before he had to continue on his journey. The alien was so grateful, the noun alien gave them a _________________ and a ________________ before leaving. Lying in bed once noun noun
again and ready to go to sleep, the boys decided that this night was the most ___________________ adjective
night and they would never forget it.
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Story Word Find Can you find these words in the book, Ebenezer Has a Word for Everything?
In the blank space, write down the page number where you found each word in the story.
linguine
jukebox
catastrophe
clamor
habitat
incredible
opportunity
villain
page:_______________________________________________
page:_______________________________________________
page:_______________________________________________
page:_______________________________________________
page:_______________________________________________
page:_______________________________________________
page:________________________________________________
page:________________________________________________
What are some of your favorite words? Write them down here!
Don’t forget to include where in the world you saw them.
1. ______________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________
Name: ____________________
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Ebenezer’s Word Match
Match the words to the definitions of Ebenezer’s favorite words.
1. junction______
2. charlatan______
3. happenstance______
4. ambiguous______
5. clamor______
6. thermosphere ______
7. linguine______
8. jukebox______
9. decathlon______
10. parka______
A. (adjective), unclear
B. (noun), a warm coat with a hood
C. (noun), a large machine that plays
music
D. (noun), the area above the Earth
and below outer space
E. (noun), an athletic competition
consisting of ten events
F. (noun), a bad guy who’s sneaky too
G. (noun), a narrow, flat noodle
H. (noun), something that happens
when you don’t expect it to
I. (noun), a place where two or more
things meet
J. (noun), a lot of noise
Name: ____________________
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Ebenezer’s Word Match [KEY]
Match the words to the definitions of Ebenezer’s favorite words.
1. junction__I__
2. charlatan__F___
3. happenstance__H___
4. ambiguous__A__
5. clamor__J__
6. thermosphere __D__
7. linguine__G__
8. jukebox__C__
9. decathlon__E__
10. parka__B__
A. (adjective), unclear
B. (noun), a warm coat with a hood
C. (noun), a large machine that plays
music
D. (noun), the area above the Earth
and below outer space
E. (noun), an athletic competition
consisting of ten events
F. (noun), a bad guy who’s sneaky too
G. (noun), a narrow, flat noodle
H. (noun), something that happens
when you don’t expect it to
I. (noun), a place where two or more
things meet
J. (noun), a lot of noise
Name: ____________________
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Ebenezer’s Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to read some of Ebenezer’s favorite words!
s u u o d n e p t s
n u n i g i l e
e h r r h o p s m t e e
u b e n a c c e r
b m a i o u g s u
k r a p a
b e x o j u k
b n r c e e i i l d
t a a r l h n c a
t n n s a l i o e a s
r a t h p t c o s a e
m o a c l r
t c o u j i n n
s n p e e n h t a a c p
l g u g j e
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Name: ____________________
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Unscramble the letters to read some of Ebenezer’s favorite words!
s u u o d n e p t s
n u n i g i l e
e h r r h o p s m t e e
u b e n a c c e r
b m a i o u g s u
k r a p a
b e x o j u k
b n r c e e i i l d
t a a r l h n c a
t n n s a l i o e a s
r a t h p t c o s a e
m o a c l r
t c o u j i n n
s n p e e n h t a a c p
l g u g j e
_s_ _t_ _u_ _p_ _e_ _n_ _d_ _o_ _u_ _s_
_l_ _i_ _n_ _g_ _u_ _i_ _n_ _e_
_t_ _h_ _e_ _r_ _m_ _o_ _s_ _p_ _h_ _e_ _r_ _e_
_b_ _u_ _c_ _c_ _a_ _n_ _e_ _e_ _r_
_a_ _m_ _b_ _i_ _g_ _u_ _o_ _u_ _s_
_p_ _a_ _r_ _k_ _a_
_j_ _u_ _k_ _e_ _b_ _o_ _x_
_i_ _n_ _c_ _r_ _e_ _d_ _i_ _b_ _l_ _e_
_c_ _h_ _a_ _r_ _l_ _a_ _t_ _a_ _n_
_s_ _e_ _n_ _s_ _a_ _t_ _i_ _o_ _n_ _a_ _l_
_c_ _a_ _t_ _a_ _s_ _t_ _r_ _o_ _p_ _h_ _e_
_c_ _l_ _a_ _m_ _o_ _r_
_j_ _u_ _n_ _c_ _t_ _i_ _o_ _n_
_h_ _a_ _p_ _p_ _e_ _n_ _s_ _t_ _a_ _n_ _c_ _e_
_j_ _u_ _g_ _g_ _l_ _e_
Ebenezer’s Word Scramble [KEY]
Name: ____________________
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