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Painting a Storm: Words That Paint a Picture

Read a story about a girl painting a stormy sky in art class, then find and choose strong words and phrases for effect.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.3.a

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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 explain how an author's word choice helps the reader picture or hear what is happening.
Students choose words and phrases that create a clear effect in a sentence.

How to use

Read the story together and ask students to point out words they can picture. Then let them answer on their own and share their rewritten sentence.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.3.a

Choose words and phrases for effect.

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Painting a Storm: Words That Paint a Picture

Find and choose strong words that show the reader what is happening.

Read the story

Mina's Storm

1On Friday, Mr. Okafor set a jar of water and a tray of paints on every desk in the art room. "Today we will paint the sky," he said. Mina looked out the window. Dark clouds were piling up over the soccer field, so she knew exactly what kind of sky she wanted.

2She soaked her brush and swept a wide stripe of gray across the top of the paper. The wet paint crept down the page in slow, wobbly lines. Mina added a drop of deep purple, and it bloomed like a flower inside the gray.

3Next she dipped a thin brush in yellow. With one quick flick, a jagged streak of lightning cracked across her clouds. Her friend Teo leaned over and gasped. "Your sky looks angry!" he whispered.

4When the paint dried, Mina held up her picture. Outside, the first fat raindrops were drumming on the window. Mina grinned. Her storm had arrived right on time. Mr. Okafor pinned her painting on the wall beside the window so everyone could compare the two storms.

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