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Hatching Day: Turning a Play into Dialogue

Read a short play about a class watching a chick hatch, then rewrite its lines as dialogue with commas, quotation marks and end marks.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.2.c

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 11 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students change lines from a play into dialogue with quotation marks around the spoken words.
  • Students choose the comma or end mark that belongs next to a speaker tag.

How to use

Read the play aloud in parts, then show how one line looks as a story sentence before students work on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.2.c

Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

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Hatching Day: Turning a Play into Dialogue

Change the lines of a short play into story sentences with commas and quotation marks.

Read the play

Each line of the play has a number.

Hatching Day in Room 12

1(A classroom in the morning. Six eggs rest in an incubator, a warm box that keeps them cozy. The class has waited three weeks for this day.)

2MR. DELGADO: Everyone, come and look at egg number four.

3NADIA: There is a tiny crack in the shell!

4ELI: Is the chick making that crack?

5MR. DELGADO: Yes, it pecks with a tiny point on the tip of its beak called an egg tooth.

6HANA: (whispering) The whole egg is wiggling.

7NADIA: Can we help it get out?

8MR. DELGADO: No, the chick needs to do this work by itself. Hatching can take many hours.

9ELI: I will draw each step in my science journal.

10(Later that afternoon, a wet, wobbly chick pushes out of the shell. The children gather around the incubator.)

11HANA: It is so small and damp!

12MR. DELGADO: Its wet fuzz will dry and turn fluffy soon.

13NADIA: What should we name it?

14ELI: Let’s call it Pebble, because it came out of something hard.

15EVERYONE: Welcome to Room 12, Pebble!

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