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The Wall of Tiny Drawers: Evidence from a Play

Grade 4 writing: read an original play set in a hardware store and use stage directions and dialogue as evidence about characters, events and theme.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.4.9.a

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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 use stage directions and dialogue as evidence about a character.
  • Students explain causes and effects in a play using details from the text.
  • Students describe how a character changes, citing what she says and does.

How to use

Have students read the play aloud in parts, then reread it as they answer. Point out that stage directions count as evidence too.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.4.9.a

Draw evidence from literature to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade 4 reading standards to stories, dramas, and poems.

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The Wall of Tiny Drawers: Evidence from a Play

Use stage directions and dialogue to support what you think.

Read the play

Read the play. Each numbered part is a character speaking or a stage direction. Stage directions are in italics and tell how the characters move and act.

The Wall of Tiny Drawers

1Characters: NADIA, age 10; LEO, her brother, age 7; AUNT FUNMI, who owns the store; MR. KOWALSKI, a customer

2Setting: Saturday morning in a small, old hardware store. One wall is covered with dozens of tiny wooden drawers. Each drawer has a faded paper label.

3AUNT FUNMI: (pulling on her work gloves) The delivery truck is here, and I need to help unload it. Nadia, can you watch the counter for ten minutes?

4NADIA: (twisting the end of her braid) Me? By myself? What if someone needs something?

5AUNT FUNMI: Then you help them. You know this store better than you think. (She hurries out the back door.)

6LEO: (spinning on the counter stool) I'll help too! I can read every label on that wall.

7(The bell over the front door jingles. MR. KOWALSKI walks in slowly, holding a tiny screw between two fingers.)

8MR. KOWALSKI: Good morning. The hinge on my kitchen cabinet came loose, and I lost a screw. I need another one just like this.

9NADIA: (staring at the wall of drawers, speaking softly) Um... maybe you could come back when my aunt is here?

10MR. KOWALSKI: (sighing) My cabinet door is hanging by one screw. I was hoping to fix it this morning.

11NADIA: (taking a deep breath) Okay. Can I see the screw, please? (She holds it up to the light.) It's short and gold-colored, with a flat top.

12LEO: (hopping off the stool) The labels on the bottom row say "brass." Aunt Funmi told me brass is gold-colored!

13NADIA: Good thinking, Leo. You read the labels, and I'll check the drawers.

14(LEO reads the labels on the bottom row out loud. NADIA opens drawer after drawer and holds each screw next to Mr. Kowalski's screw.)

15NADIA: Too long... too thin... (She opens one more drawer and smiles.) This one matches exactly!

16MR. KOWALSKI: (beaming) Wonderful! You two make a fine team.

17(AUNT FUNMI comes back in, brushing dust off her gloves.)

18AUNT FUNMI: Did anything happen while I was gone?

19NADIA: (standing a little taller) Mr. Kowalski needed a brass screw, and Leo and I found it together.

20AUNT FUNMI: (smiling) See? I told you. You know more than you think.

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