Grade 3 English Language Arts · Level 2, Read Literature Closely and Write Narratives

See How Stories, Dramas, and Poems Are Built

Refer to chapters, scenes, and stanzas and explain how successive parts build on earlier parts of a text.

How the lesson starts: See How Stories, Dramas, and Poems Are Built

Boss Bix builds
Meet Boss Bix, a beaver who builds with words! A dam is built log by log. Poems, plays, and books are built part by part. Every part has a name. Let's learn the names!
Poems: lines and stanzas
Here is a poem. Gray clouds gather, soft and low. The air smells cold. Here comes the snow! Each row of words is a line. A group of lines is a stanza. This stanza has two lines.
Plays and books
A play is a story people act out. It is built in scenes. The name before the colon tells who is speaking. Words in parentheses are stage directions. They tell actors what to do. A story book is built in chapters.