Stories of people helping animals are all over the internet, and sharing them with your students is an excellent way to encourage kindness both in and out of the classroom. Because most children naturally feel compassion for animals, sharing rescue stories is a great way to engage and motivate different types of learners and encourage them to take action to help end animal suffering.
TeachKind’s Rescue Stories reading comprehension worksheets tell a different animal’s tale of transformation each month and feature key vocabulary words and questions in order to encourage literal, inferential, and evaluative thinking. This month’s story is about fish who were once used in a rental program at Kimpton Hotels. After talks with PETA, the hotel chain agreed to find new homes for more than 200 fish and end the program.
Use other TeachKind resources to create an entire lesson around this story. You can use this worksheet to address the following Common Core English language arts standards:
GRADES 9-10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
GRADES 11-12
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
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