This is a 63-page set of worksheets for the story "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

I divided the story into twelve sections. For each section, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Katherine Applegate: The One and Only Ivan

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: The War That saved My Life

Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lois Lowry: The Giver

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Bill Wallace: Red Dog

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods