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Imani and the Crooked Line

Read an original tale about a weaver and a mistake, retell the key events and use story details to explain its central message.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.2

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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 retell the key events of a tale in order.
Students tell the central message of a tale.
Students explain how key details show the central message.

How to use

Read the tale aloud once, then let students retell it to a partner before they write. Ask them to name the detail that best shows the message.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.2

Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures, and explain how key details show the central message or moral.

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Imani and the Crooked Line

Retell a tale and find its central message.

Read the tale

Read the tale. Think about what happens at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.

Imani and the Crooked Line

1In the town of Sela Bend, a weaver named Imani made blankets for the Saturday market. Everyone said her rows were the straightest and neatest in the valley, and Imani was proud of that. She wove slowly and checked each row with her finger.

2One Friday evening, a hungry goat bumped Imani's elbow. Her thread jumped and left a long, crooked line of gold across the red blanket. "This blanket is ruined," she groaned. She reached for her scissors to cut out the whole row.

3"Wait," said her grandmother, who was shelling beans nearby. "Look at it again before you cut." Imani looked. The crooked line wiggled across the blanket like a winding road. Slowly, she smiled. She wove green hills on both sides of the road and tiny houses along the edge.

4On Saturday, travelers stopped at Imani's table. They passed by the straight blankets and picked up the red one with the winding road. "No other blanket is like this one," said an old trader. "I can almost walk down that road." He paid more for it than for any blanket Imani had ever sold.

5That night, Imani told her grandmother, "I almost cut away the best part." Her grandmother nodded. "Now you know," she said. Imani put her scissors away and started a new blanket. This time, she wove a crooked line on purpose.

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