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Nadia's Plain Brown Box

Read an original story about a school cardboard arcade day, compare what each character thinks and decide on your own point of view.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.6

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1 Common Core standard
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell what different characters in a story think about the same thing.
Students explain their own point of view and how it differs from a character's.

How to use

Read the story aloud, then have students mark what Nadia and Benji each think before they answer the questions and share their own views.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.6

Distinguish your own point of view from that of the narrator or of the characters.

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Nadia's Plain Brown Box

Compare the characters' points of view with your own.

Read the story

Nadia's Plain Brown Box

1On Arcade Day, every third grader at Hillside School built a game out of cardboard. Nadia made a beanbag toss. She cut three round holes in a big box and painted a number under each one: 5, 10 and 20. That was all. She did not add anything else.

2Across the gym, Oscar had built a pinball game with a spinning wheel and a bell that rang. Kids crowded around it. Nadia looked at her plain brown box and frowned. "My game is boring," she told her friend Benji. "It doesn't even make a sound."

3Benji tossed a beanbag through the 20 hole. "I like it," he said. "Anyone can play it, even little kids." Nadia shook her head. She wished she had time to add a bell.

4Then the first graders arrived to play. A small girl named Lucy ran straight to Nadia's box. She threw all three beanbags and laughed when one landed in the 10. "Can I have another turn?" Lucy shouted. Soon a long line of first graders stretched across the gym to the door.

5At the end of the day, the teacher, Ms. Park, counted how many kids had played each game. More kids had played Nadia's game than any other game in the gym. Nadia smiled at her plain brown box. "Maybe it doesn't need a bell after all," she said.

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