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The Water Table at Mile Three

Read a short play about kids handing out water at a fun run, then explain what the similes and metaphors in it mean.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.4.5.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 explain what the similes and metaphors in a play mean.
Students name the two things being compared in a simile.
Students choose and sort comparisons by the meaning they show.

How to use

Assign parts and read the play aloud as a group, then have students answer the questions on their own. Each part of the play is numbered so students can find the lines the questions name.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.4.5.a

Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors in context, such as as pretty as a picture.

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The Water Table at Mile Three

A short play full of similes and metaphors.

Read the play

Read the play. Each part is numbered. Look for the similes and metaphors the characters use.

The Water Table at Mile Three

1A Saturday morning beside a city street. A long folding table holds tall stacks of paper cups and big jugs of water. Amara and Luis, both ten, wear bright yellow volunteer shirts. Ms. Okafor, the station leader, fills cups with water.

2Ms. Okafor: The fun run starts in ten minutes. Soon this quiet street will be a river of runners. Every runner who passes might need a drink, so be ready.

3Luis: (holding out a cup) Look, my hands are shaking like leaves in the wind. What if I drop everything?

4Amara: You'll be fine. Just hold the cup out to the side and let the runner grab it. Besides, we have plenty of cups. This stack is a tower!

5Ms. Okafor: (laughing) It is a tall tower, all right. We will need every one of those cups.

6(A whistle blows far away. A few minutes pass.)

7Amara: Here they come! The leader is a streak of orange!

8Luis: She went by so fast that I didn't even see her face. She didn't even take a cup!

9(More runners arrive. Amara and Luis hold out cups as fast as they can. Mr. Dawson, a gray-haired runner, stops at the table, out of breath.)

10Mr. Dawson: Water, please! My mouth is as dry as a desert!

11Luis: (handing him two cups) Here you go, sir. Take two!

12Mr. Dawson: (after a long drink) Ahh. You're a lifesaver, young man. Now I can finish the race!

13(He jogs away. Suddenly, one leg of the table folds, and a jug of water starts to tip. Ms. Okafor snaps the leg back into place and catches the jug before it spills.)

14Luis: Wow, Ms. Okafor, you're as quick as a cat!

15Ms. Okafor: Years of practice! Now back to work. The last runners are coming.

16(Later, the street is quiet. All over the ground, empty cups lie scattered like confetti.)

17Ms. Okafor: You two were a great team today, like peanut butter and jelly. I could not have done it without you.

18Luis: (smiling) And I didn't drop a single cup.

19Amara: Not one! Now let's pick up all this confetti.

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