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The Lunchbox Mix-Up: Narrator, Situation and Events

Read a family story about mixed-up lunchboxes, study how it introduces the narrator and situation, then plan a story beginning.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.3.3.a

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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 identify how a story introduces its narrator, characters and situation.
Students put story events in an order that unfolds naturally.
Students plan a story opening with a narrator, a situation and events in order.

How to use

Read the story together and talk about what the first paragraph tells the reader. Students answer the questions, then use the planning frame to start their own story about 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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The Lunchbox Mix-Up: Narrator, Situation and Events

See how a story starts, then plan your own.

Read the story

Read the story. Think about who is telling it and what happens first, next and last.

The Lunchbox Mix-Up

1My name is Ravi, and I am the youngest of three kids. Every school morning, our kitchen is busy. Dad packs three lunchboxes at the counter while my sisters, Priya and Asha, hunt for their shoes.

2On Monday, Dad was in a hurry. He packed the lunches, snapped the lids shut and lined up the boxes by the door. All three boxes were the same shade of green.

3At lunchtime, I opened my box. Instead of my cheese sandwich, I found a cup of plain yogurt and a pile of celery sticks. That was Asha's lunch! I do not even like celery.

4First, I traded my celery for my friend Sam's crackers. Then, after school, I told Dad what happened. Asha laughed because she had eaten my cheese sandwich, and she loved it.

5That night, Dad gave each of us a roll of colored tape. I wrapped a blue stripe around my box, Priya picked yellow, and Asha chose purple. Now nobody grabs the wrong lunch.

Who is the narrator, the person telling this story?