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The Fix-It Table: A Short Play

Read an original short play set at a neighborhood repair café, then quote lines and stage directions to support inferences about the characters.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.5.1

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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 quote lines and stage directions accurately to explain what a play says directly.
Students choose quotations that support inferences about how a character feels and changes.

How to use

Assign parts and read the play aloud as a group, then have students answer on their own. Point out that stage directions can be quoted as evidence too.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text to explain what it says directly and to support inferences drawn from it.

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The Fix-It Table: A Short Play

Quote the play to explain what happens and what you can infer.

Read the play

Read the play. Stage directions are in italics.

The Fix-It Table

1Setting: A Saturday morning at the Riverside Repair Café, which meets once a month in a school cafeteria. Long tables hold screwdrivers, glue and spools of thread. A hand-painted sign on the wall reads: Don't Toss It. Fix It Together.

2LUCIA: (hanging back by the door, holding a small wooden box behind her) Maybe I should go. Everyone else brought real things. Toasters. Bikes. Lamps.

3MRS. CHEN: (looking up from a torn umbrella) Real things? I brought an umbrella that cost five dollars. Nobody here is judging.

4MR. OYELARAN: (waving her over) Fixers' rule number one: if it matters to you, it's real. What have you got?

5LUCIA: (setting the box on the table and lifting the lid; nothing happens) It's a music box. My grandmother gave it to me when I was five. It used to play a song every night, but last month it just stopped. (quietly) I think I broke it.

6MR. OYELARAN: (peering inside with a small flashlight) Hmm. Look here. A tiny tooth on this little gear is bent, so the gear can't turn. That can happen to music boxes that get played a lot. It doesn't mean you were careless. It means you loved it.

7LUCIA: Can you fix it?

8MR. OYELARAN: (holding out a pair of tweezers) No. But you can. I'll tell you how.

9LUCIA: (stepping back, eyes wide) Me? What if I make it worse?

10MRS. CHEN: (without looking up from her stitching) That's what I said the first time I came here. Now I fix my neighbors' umbrellas.

11Lucia takes the tweezers. Her hand shakes at first. Mr. Oyelaran points, and she gently straightens the bent tooth. She winds the key two small turns. A soft, tinkling tune fills the room. Mrs. Chen stops sewing and smiles.

12LUCIA: (laughing) It's playing! I did that. I actually did that!

13MR. OYELARAN: You did. Now, see that boy at the end of the table with the wobbly chair? He looks about as nervous as you were twenty minutes ago.

14LUCIA: (tucking the music box safely into her bag, then rolling up her sleeves) Do you have another pair of tweezers? Actually, what does a person use to fix a wobbly chair?

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