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One Runaway Hat, Three Ways

Read one event told as a story, a poem, and a play, then compare them using terms like stanza, rhythm, and stage directions.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.4.5

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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 4
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 poems, plays, and stories are built differently.
  • Students use terms like verse, rhythm, stanza, cast of characters, and stage directions to describe a text.

How to use

Read the three versions aloud and let a few students act out the play, then have students answer the questions and compare the forms with a partner.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.4.5

Explain how poems, dramas, and prose differ, using terms like verse and rhythm for poems and cast of characters and stage directions for dramas.

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One Runaway Hat, Three Ways

Compare a story, a poem, and a play that tell the same event.

Read three versions

The same event is told three ways: as a story, as a poem, and as a play. Read all three.

The Runaway Hat: A Story

1Lena and her grandfather stood at the rail of the ferry as it chugged across the bay. Seagulls circled overhead, and cold spray misted their faces. Lena was wearing her bright red hat, the one Grandpa had knitted for her last fall.

2Suddenly, a strong gust of wind snatched the hat right off her head. The hat tumbled across the deck toward the open water. Lena gasped and reached for it, but it was already too far away.

3Just then, a deckhand named Mr. Reyes hurried over with a long pole. He stretched out the pole and hooked the hat just before it flew over the side. Lena hugged the hat to her chest. "Thank you!" she cried. Grandpa laughed and tugged the hat down snugly over her ears.

Red Hat, Blue Bay: A Poem

1The ferry hums across the bay,
The gulls swoop low and call,
And Lena wears the bright red hat
That Grandpa knit last fall.

2Then whoosh! A gust comes racing by
And snatches it away.
It spins and tumbles to the rail,
Above the salty spray!

3A long pole reaches, quick and sure,
The deckhand saves the day!
Now Lena's hat is safe once more,
Snug on her head to stay.

The Runaway Hat: A Play

Cast of Characters
LENA, a nine-year-old girl
GRANDPA, Lena's grandfather
MR. REYES, a deckhand on the ferry

(The deck of a ferry on a windy morning. Seagulls cry overhead. LENA and GRANDPA stand at the rail.)

LENA: (holding on to her hat) Grandpa, look how far we are from the dock!

GRANDPA: Hold on tight. This wind is strong today.

(A loud whoosh! The hat flies off LENA's head and tumbles across the deck.)

LENA: (gasping) My hat! It's going to blow into the water!

MR. REYES: (running in with a long hooked pole) Don't worry, I've got it!

(He reaches out with the pole and catches the hat just before it slides under the rail.)

LENA: (hugging the hat) Thank you, thank you!

GRANDPA: (laughing and tugging the hat over her ears) There. Now it will stay put.

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