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This worksheet helps to teach the literary element of foreshadowing by providing examples for students to match the foreshadowing clue with the actual event.

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Foreshadowing 2

This worksheet helps to teach the literary element of foreshadowing by providing examples for students to match the foreshadowing clue with the actual event.

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Mary Howard
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ELA 6 – Reading Name: ___________________________

Date: __________________ Mod: _________

Foreshadowing is the use of hints that suggest what events will happen later in a story. Writers
use foreshadowing to create suspense, draw readers into the plot or to prepare readers for the
climax.

Word Roots: FORE = IN FRONT OF


SHADOW = A GLIMPSE

My definition of Foreshadowing: _______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Once you recognize foreshadowing, you can make predictions about what might
happen in a story.

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passages and draw a line to the event each passage most
likely foreshadows.
The children are soon
1. In the beginning of a movie, a well dressed
visited by Peter Pan
woman is traveling by ship. She stares out at
and whisked away to
the ocean, daydreaming. As she stares, she
face a dangerous
hums the tune, “Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life for
situation.
Me”

2. A character in a story behaves in an odd There will be a


and irregular way and complains continuously terrible event
that he has a headache. involving pirates.

3. A boy and a girl drop breadcrumbs as they The boy and girl
travel deeper and deeper into the woods. become helplessly lost.

4. A character says, “It would be a bad idea


A crime is committed.
to break any laws at this point in time”

5. "But, George, do you think the children A character becomes


will be safe without Nana? Safe? Of course very ill.
they'll be safe. Why not?

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