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A Room for Abuela: Setting Up a Story

Read a story about a family getting a room ready for Abuela, see how it sets up the situation and orders events, then plan a story.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.3.a

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1 Common Core standard
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11 questions
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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 identify how a story introduces its characters and establishes a situation.
Students order story events by time so they unfold naturally.
Students plan characters, a situation and a sequence of events for their own story.

How to use

Read the story aloud, pausing after paragraph 2 to ask what got the story moving. Students answer the questions, then fill in the planning frame before drafting a story about a change at home.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.3.a

Establish a situation, introduce a narrator or characters, and organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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A Room for Abuela: Setting Up a Story

Study how a story sets the scene and moves from day to day.

Read the story

Read the story. Notice who is in it, where it happens and how the days move along.

A Room for Abuela

1Marisol and her brother Diego lived with their parents in a narrow blue house on Pine Street. The smallest room, at the top of the stairs, was full of boxes, a broken lamp and an old exercise bike.

2One evening at dinner, Mom set down her fork. "Abuela is going to live with us," she said. "She arrives on Saturday, and she needs a room." Marisol and Diego looked at each other. They both knew which room Mom meant.

3On Thursday, the family carried the boxes to the garage. Diego swept the floor while Marisol washed the window. On Friday, Dad put together a new bed, and Mom hung soft green curtains.

4Then Marisol had an idea. She pinned her best drawings of the family above the bed. Diego set a jar of Abuela's favorite peppermints on the little table.

5On Saturday afternoon, a car pulled up outside. Abuela climbed the stairs slowly, opened the door and pressed her hand to her heart. "It already feels like home," she said.

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