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ANNA TAKES A WALK

Theme: Community

Home-Grown Story Created By

Marylynn Hoffmann

in support of the

Adult ELL Pathway to Literacy Program

Indianapolis, IN

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Level F

Using This Story

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• These stories were created as open educational resources to use with adult English language learners who have limited-literacy skills.
• We encourage using the stories first without words, to introduce and develop students’ oral language before showing them the text.
• Comic Sans font is used in the stories because it closely resembles handwriting.
• The story is meant to be a resource, not a stand-alone curriculum.
• The Yes/No and Wh- question slides are not meant to be shown to the students.

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@2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY NC 4.0 license by the Pathway to Literacy Program, under the direction of the Immigrant Welcome Center, in Indianapolis, IN. All images in this story, unless otherwise attributed, are from Public Domain or free stock photo images sources, such as Unsplash, Pikist, Pixabay, Pexels, FreePik, Pics4Learning.

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Anna Takes a Walk

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This is Anna. She lives on Pine Street

in a small city in the U.S.. She likes

walking. Today she will go for a walk.

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First, she walks to the church on Elm Street. It is one block from her home. She attends that church on Sundays.

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Next, she walks to the fire station beside the church. She sees the red fire truck and says hello to the firefighters.

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Next, she walks to the school on the

corner of Market Street and State Street.�Her children attend that school. She sees students outside but she does not see her children.

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Then she walks to the park across from the school. She sees a red bird in a tree at the park. She often goes to the playground with her children. She likes that park!

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Next, she walks to the coffee shop on

Main Street. She buys a small cup of

coffee. She puts cream and sugar in it.

After she drinks her coffee, she goes

by the restaurant on Lake Street.

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Now Anna is tired. She decides to go back home. She walks two blocks to Pine Street and then to her home. She is happy to be home because it was a long walk!

The End

1. Anna sees a dog at the park.
2. Anna walks to the bank.
3. The fire truck is blue.
4. Anna’s home is on Main Street.
5. Anna sees a bird at the park.

Yes / No Questions

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1. What is her name?
2. Where does Anna live?
3. Where does she walk first?
4. Where else does she go? (“more places?”)
5. What does she see?
6. Why does she go home?
7. How does she feel?

Wh- Questions

Read the map. Then answer the following questions.

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1. The school is …
1. across from the restaurant
2. next to the fire station
3. across from the park

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2. The church is …

1. on Pine Street
2. on Main Street
3. on Elm Street

3. The restaurant is on the corner of …

1. Lake and Elm Streets
2. Lake and Main Streets.
3. Lake and State Streets.

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4. How many blocks is the coffee shop from Anna’s home?

1. 1 block
2. 3 blocks
3. 2 block

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5. How many blocks does Anna walk to the park?

1. 2 blocks
2. 4 blocks
3. 3 blocks

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6. Anna buys coffee at the …

1. park
2. restaurant
3. coffee shop

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7. Anna sees a bird at the …

1. school
2. park
3. church

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8. Show the route Anna takes for her walk on the map.

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