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When Home Changes

Read two original realistic fiction stories about a change at home, then compare how each story approaches the theme of adjusting to change.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.5.9

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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

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What students practice

Students compare how two realistic fiction stories approach the theme of change in a family.
Students contrast the events, narrators and characters of two stories in the same genre.
Students explain how each main character changes using details from the text.

How to use

Read both stories aloud or in pairs, then have students mark details that show how each character feels about the change before answering the questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.5.9

Compare and contrast stories in the same genre, such as mysteries and adventure stories, on how they approach similar themes and topics.

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When Home Changes

Compare two realistic stories about a big change in a family.

Read Story A

Story A: The Tape Line

1When Noor's mom married June's dad, Noor got a stepsister, a new name on the mailbox and half a bedroom. On the first night, Noor stuck a strip of blue tape down the middle of the floor.

2"Your side, my side," she said. June shrugged and set her suitcase on the bed by the window. That bed used to be Noor's.

3For a week, the girls barely spoke. June strummed her guitar on her side. Noor read on hers. At dinner, the grown-ups chatted brightly, and the girls stared at their plates.

4Then one night, Noor heard a small sniff from the other side of the tape. June was holding a photo of her old house.

5Noor thought about her own first night in this apartment, years ago, when everything smelled like paint and nothing felt like hers. She crossed the tape line and sat on the edge of June's bed.

6"It took me a whole year to like it here," Noor said. "The radiator clanks all night. You get used to it."

7June laughed a little. "Can you show me where the good snacks are hidden?"

8The next morning, the blue tape was in the trash.

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