Short Story Study - Thunder by Patricia Grace
Thunder by Patricia Grace is a short story about responsibility, empathy, and community support. Set during a violent storm, the story follows twelve-year-old Andy as he cares for his younger brothers and faces a difficult decision when a young girl arrives at his house seeking help.
This student workbook includes structured activities to help students analyse the story in detail. It covers pre-reading, comprehension, character, key ideas, setting, language features, symbolism, and author’s purpose. No prep needed, editable, and ready to go.
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*** Note: This resource is included in our discounted short story BUNDLE here. ***
This resource includes:
⭐ A student workbook
⭐ An answer book
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Pre-reading activities that explore responsibility, empathy, and community support
❤️ A clear summary of the story
❤️ Comprehension questions to check understanding
❤️ Activities focused on literary elements such as character, setting, symbolism, language features, and key ideas
❤️ Opportunities to explore perspective, audience, and author’s purpose
❤️ A separate answer book with possible answers
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Short story collection here.
✅ Elements of Literature BUNDLE (resources also sold separately).
✅ Revision for Short Story Studies
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Sharing/Copying this Resource
Feel free to purchase just one for your department - no need for a copy for each teacher. However:
- Please do NOT share with the school down the road.
- Please do NOT take it with you to a new school.
- Feel free to suggest the website to others - that'd be great!
That's pretty fair we think! Let's help each other out. :)
Reviews
Sorry to start with a dad joke...
As we navigate through the new curriculum, these resources give choice to the teachers in the department, both through the range of short text resources we have purchased to the resource itself allowing for differentiated teaching and inspiring conversations and explorations of this NZ text. Any day we can show students literature that reflects a world that they live in is a good day. Thanks.