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The Lost Sock of Suds Corner: A Short Play

Read an original grade 5 play about a missing sock at a laundromat and answer questions on characters, stage directions and meaning.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.5.10

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 11 questions
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Details

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 read and understand a grade 5 play independently.
  • Students tell spoken lines from stage directions and use details to explain what characters do and mean.

How to use

Let students read the play on their own first; afterward, small groups can read the parts aloud before answering the questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.5.10

By the end of the year, read and understand stories, dramas, and poems at the high end of the grades 4-5 level, independently.

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The Lost Sock of Suds Corner: A Short Play

Read a funny play set in a neighborhood laundromat.

Read the play

Read the play carefully. Words in parentheses are stage directions. The lines are numbered.

The Lost Sock of Suds Corner

1Cast: DESMOND, age eleven; AUNT VERA, owner of the Suds Corner Laundromat; MRS. HARUKI, a regular customer who comes in every week; LEON, a college student folding towels.

2Setting: A cold, dry winter evening at the laundromat. Rows of washers hum. A bulletin board by the door is covered with notes about lost cats, guitar lessons and rooms for rent.

3MRS. HARUKI: (holding up one striped sock) Vera, your dryer number six has eaten a sock again. That's the second one this month!

4AUNT VERA: (laughing) Machines don't eat socks, Mrs. Haruki. They just hide them in clever places.

5DESMOND: (putting down his homework) I'll find it. A good detective never leaves a case unsolved. What does it look like?

6MRS. HARUKI: Blue and yellow stripes, with a small hole in the heel that I keep meaning to fix. My grandson wears these socks to every soccer game. He says they bring him luck.

7DESMOND: (opening dryer six and shining a flashlight inside) Nothing in the drum. (He checks the lint screen.) Only fuzz. Leon, did you see anything blue and yellow?

8LEON: (shaking his head as he folds a towel) Only my own laundry, and believe me, nothing I own is that cheerful.

9DESMOND: (pacing between the washers) Then we need to think. Socks can't walk. So either it never went into the dryer, or it came out and went somewhere we haven't looked.

10AUNT VERA: Or it's clinging to something. On cold, dry nights, clothes come out of the dryer full of static, and they stick together like magnets.

11DESMOND: (snapping his fingers) Mrs. Haruki, may I look at the sweater you're wearing?

12MRS. HARUKI: (puzzled) My sweater? I took it out of the dryer and put it right on because I was chilly.

13DESMOND: Hold still, please. (He peels a striped sock off the back of her sweater and holds it up high.) Case closed!

14LEON: (clapping) You were wearing the evidence the whole time!

15MRS. HARUKI: (laughing until she has to wipe her eyes) Well, I suppose I owe dryer number six an apology.

16AUNT VERA: (handing Desmond a token for a free wash) For the detective. Every business needs one.

17DESMOND: (pinning a new card to the bulletin board) There. "Lost socks found here. Ask for Desmond."

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