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The Zine That Almost Wasn't: Transitions Through a Busy Week

Read an original story about a class making a hobby zine, then find, sort and use transitions that manage the order of events.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.5.3.c

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify transitional words, phrases and clauses that show the order of events.
Students explain whether a transition shows events at the same time, later or earlier.
Students use a variety of transitions to manage the sequence in their own narrative.

How to use

Read the story together and have students point to each time word they notice. Then let them answer the questions and write their own short scene.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.5.3.c

Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.

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The Zine That Almost Wasn't: Transitions Through a Busy Week

Find the words, phrases and clauses that keep events in order.

Read the story

Read the story. Pay attention to the words that tell when each event happens.

The Zine That Almost Wasn't

1On Monday morning, Ms. Pham made an announcement that changed Rosa's whole week. "Room 12 is going to make a zine," she said. "A zine is a small homemade magazine, and ours will be about our hobbies. Each of you will write one page, and we will hand out copies at family night on Friday."

2Rosa volunteered to be the editor. Before lunch, she had already made a list of every student's hobby, from bird-watching to beatboxing. After school, she read the first five pages that came in and fixed the spelling with a purple pen.

3Theo was in charge of the cover. While Rosa checked pages, he sketched a giant pencil wearing sunglasses. He drew it six times before he liked it.

4By Wednesday, all twenty-four pages were ready. Rosa carried the stack to the school office, where the copy machine waited. As soon as she pressed the green button, the machine began to hum.

5Halfway through the job, the machine stopped with a loud crunch. A red light blinked on and off. Rosa's stomach dropped. Meanwhile, back in Room 12, Theo was happily coloring covers, with no idea that anything was wrong.

6Rosa ran down the hall for help. A few minutes later, Mr. Diaz, the custodian, opened a little door on the side of the machine and pulled out a crumpled sheet. "Paper jams happen to everyone," he said with a smile. Soon the machine was humming again.

7On Thursday afternoon, the whole class sat in a circle, folding and stapling. Earlier that day, Theo had finished coloring the last cover, so every zine looked bright and bold.

8Finally, on Friday night, Rosa watched families flip through the pages. A grandfather chuckled at the pencil in sunglasses, and a little girl asked how to beatbox. Rosa smiled. The zine had almost not happened, but now it was in dozens of hands.

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