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Sawdust Saturday: A Short Play

Read an original short play set in a woodshop class and use details from the lines and stage directions to support inferences.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.4.1

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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

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What students practice

Students use details from the lines and stage directions of a play to explain what the text says.
Students make inferences about characters and support them with details from a play.

How to use

Assign parts and read the play aloud as a group, then have students answer the questions on their own, rereading the numbered lines as needed.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.4.1

Use details and examples from a text to explain what it says directly and to support inferences drawn from it.

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Sawdust Saturday: A Short Play

Use clues in a play to figure out what the characters do not say.

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Sawdust Saturday

1Characters: AMARA, a ten-year-old girl; KENJI, her friend; MS. RUIZ, the woodshop teacher. Setting: A Saturday woodshop class at the community center. Sawdust covers the floor. AMARA is sanding a small wooden step stool. KENJI is painting a wooden box for his rock collection. MS. RUIZ walks between the tables.

2KENJI: That stool is tiny. Who is it for, a cat?

3AMARA: (laughing) It's for someone who stands on her toes every morning to reach the top shelf in her kitchen.

4MS. RUIZ: (running her hand over the stool) Amara, these legs are perfectly even. Did you measure twice?

5AMARA: Twice, and then a third time. Someone taught me that rule before I could even read. She used to let me hold the tape measure while she fixed things around her apartment.

6KENJI: (putting down his paintbrush) Okay, now I really want to know who it is.

7AMARA: Here's another clue. She is a little shorter than me now. She says the ladder in her kitchen makes her knees ache.

8KENJI: Shorter than you? But you're only ten!

9AMARA: (smiling) She wasn't always shorter. When I was little, she lifted me onto her shoulders at a parade so I could see the drummers.

10MS. RUIZ: (holding up two small cans) Do you want to paint it? I have green and blue.

11AMARA: Blue, please, to match the tiles in her kitchen. And I'm going to carve two words on the top step: "Measure twice."

12KENJI: (snapping his fingers) Wait, I know! Your grandma's kitchen has blue tiles. I saw them when we made dumplings at her apartment. And she says "measure twice" every time she cuts the dough!

13AMARA: (putting a finger to her lips) Shh! Her birthday is next Sunday. Don't tell her.

14KENJI: I won't. (He picks up his box and tries to close the lid. It sticks out on one side.) Ms. Ruiz, can you show me how to measure twice?

15MS. RUIZ: (laughing) Gladly. That's a rule worth passing on.

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