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Teo Learns to Whistle: Showing How Characters Feel

Read a story about a boy learning to whistle, then practice showing a character's feelings with dialogue, actions and thoughts.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.3.b

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1 Common Core standard
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10 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 dialogue, actions and thoughts that show how a character feels.
Students choose speaking words and actions that fit a character's feelings.
Students revise telling sentences into showing sentences with actions and dialogue.

How to use

Read the story aloud and talk about how Teo's feelings change. Students answer Sections 2 and 3 on their own, then share their showing sentences with a partner.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.3.3.b

Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop events or show how characters respond to situations.

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Teo Learns to Whistle: Showing How Characters Feel

Use dialogue, actions and thoughts to show how a character responds.

Read the story

Read the story. Notice what Teo says, does, thinks and feels.

The Whistle That Would Not Come

1Every evening, Teo's big cousin Lila stood on the porch steps and whistled for her dog, Biscuit. It was a sharp, clear sound, like a bird call. Biscuit always came running from the far end of the yard.

2"Teach me how to do that," Teo begged one evening. Lila laughed. "Just make your lips round and blow," she said. Teo squeezed his lips into a tight circle and blew as hard as he could. Only air came out, along with a little spit.

3He tried again and again. His cheeks puffed out like a balloon, but no whistle came. Teo kicked a pebble off the step. Maybe my lips are just the wrong shape, he thought. "I give up," he groaned, and he flopped onto the porch swing.

4Grandpa Ruben looked up from his crossword puzzle. "It took me a whole summer to learn," he said. "Try blowing softly, like you are cooling a spoonful of hot soup." Teo sat up straight. If Grandpa needed a whole summer, then I am not doing so badly, he thought.

5The next day, Teo practiced while he made his bed, while he tied his shoes, and while he waited for the school bus. Then, on the walk home from the bus stop, a tiny tweet slipped out. Teo froze. He tried once more, softly, and the sound came again, a little louder.

6That evening, he raced out to the porch. "Listen!" he shouted. He blew a thin, wobbly whistle. Across the yard, Biscuit lifted her ears and trotted over. Lila clapped, and Teo grinned so wide that his cheeks hurt.

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