RL.4.5

Listen to the story: Maya wrote a play for her class. Part of her script read: MAYA (waving her arms): Wait for me! [She runs across the stage and trips over a chair.] Later, Maya rewrote the very same scene as a regular story: 'Maya waved her arms and shouted for her friends to wait. Then she ran and tripped over a chair.' In the play, the notes inside the brackets told the actors exactly how to move, but the regular story just described everything in plain sentences. Which structural element is found in a drama (play) but NOT in prose (a regular story)?

Listen to the story: Ben wrote the same conversation two ways. In his play, it looked like this: BEN: I found the treasure! ELLA: Show me! In his novel, the same talking looked like this: 'I found the treasure!' Ben shouted. 'Show me!' Ella replied. In the play, each speaker's name is printed right before the words they say. In the novel, quotation marks wrap around the spoken words instead. How is dialogue presented differently in a play versus a novel?

Listen to the story: Rosa's teacher showed the class a poem: 'The gentle breeze begins to blow, it lifts the kite and lets it go.' The words had a steady beat you could tap along to, and the ending words blow and go sounded alike. Then the teacher showed a regular story about a windy day, written in long sentences that flowed across the page with no steady beat and no matching end sounds. What structural element do poems often have that prose does not?