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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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__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

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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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