Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.