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Thunder Over Elm Street Pool

A short play at a city pool helps students tell apart wonder, doubt, guess, hope, realize and be positive.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.5.c

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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

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What students practice

Students tell apart words for states of mind such as wonder, doubt, hope and realize.
Students sort and order words by how sure a speaker is.

How to use

Have students read the play aloud in parts, stopping to ask how sure each speaker is, then complete the questions alone or with a partner.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.5.c

Tell apart shades of meaning among related words for states of mind or degrees of certainty, such as knew, believed, suspected, heard, and wondered.

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Thunder Over Elm Street Pool

A short play about being sure and not sure

Read the play

Each numbered part is a line of the play.

Thunder Over Elm Street Pool

1Setting: The Elm Street city pool on a hot summer afternoon. Rosa, the lifeguard, sits in her tall chair. The twins Kofi and Ama are swimming near the steps.

2KOFI: Look at those dark clouds over the hills. I wonder if it will storm.

3AMA: I doubt it. The sun is shining right above us.

4KOFI: I guess the clouds might float the other way.

5Stage direction: A low rumble comes from the hills.

6ROSA (blowing her whistle): Everyone out of the pool, please!

7AMA: But it isn't even raining! Are you sure that was thunder?

8ROSA: I am positive. I heard it clearly. When we hear thunder, we get out of the water. That is our pool rule.

9KOFI: How long do we have to wait?

10ROSA: We wait thirty minutes after the last thunder. Then I will check the sky again.

11Stage direction: The swimmers wait inside the pool building. Rain begins to pour down.

12AMA: I was wrong. I thought the storm would miss us. Now I realize why Rosa acted so fast.

13KOFI: I'm sure we will swim again later. I just hope the sun comes back soon.