★Story Structure
Grade 4 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence
Read the text. Circle what each part of the text tells the reader.
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The Library Book Hunt
CAST OF CHARACTERS
LUCIA, a fourth grader
TEO, her younger brother
MS. KESSLER, the school librarianSCENE 1
(A living room on a rainy morning. Couch cushions are scattered across the floor. LUCIA kneels beside the couch.)
LUCIA: My library book is gone! It's due today.
TEO: (peeking out from the hallway) Which book?
LUCIA: The blue one about volcanoes. I left it right here last night.
TEO: (looking under a chair) It's not under here.
LUCIA: (slumping onto the couch) Ms. Kessler will think I don't care about her books.
TEO: She won't. Just tell her the truth.
(LUCIA grabs her backpack. TEO holds the front door open.)SCENE 2
(The school library, twenty minutes later. MS. KESSLER stands behind the front desk, stacking books.)
LUCIA: (quietly) Ms. Kessler, I can't find my volcano book.
MS. KESSLER: Thank you for telling me. Where did you see it last?
LUCIA: On the couch, last night.
TEO: (tugging on Lucia's backpack) Wait. What's in this front pocket?
(LUCIA unzips the pocket and pulls out the blue volcano book.)
LUCIA: (laughing) I packed it before bed, and then I forgot!
MS. KESSLER: (smiling) Mystery solved. And it's right on time.
TEO: Can I be a detective when I grow up?
LUCIA: (handing him the book to return) You already are.What do the words in parentheses, such as (peeking out from the hallway), tell the reader?
- what the narrator thinks of everyone
- the name of the next scene
- what a character does
How does a reader know who says each line?
- A narrator explains who is talking.
- The speaker's name comes first.
- Each line ends with the word said.
Why does the play move from Scene 1 to Scene 2?
- A narrator starts telling the story.
- The time and the place change.
- Scene 2 tells Scene 1 again in rhyme.
What does the first stage direction in Scene 1 tell the reader?
- where the scene is and what it looks like
- what Lucia is thinking about the lost book
- how the play ends and who found the book
