Summarizing Game

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• Laura didn’t have enough money to buy the bicycle that she wanted, so she did work in her neighborhood to earn it.

• Laura wanted to ride a bicycle, but she didn’t have one, so she asked her neighbors to donate some money.

• On Friday, Laura had the idea to do some extra work to earn money.

• Laura’s problem was that everyone except her knew how to ride a bicycle, and so she needed someone to teach her.

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• Susan wanted to play the guitar, but her brother wouldn’t let her, so she asked nicely.

• Susan wanted to play the guitar, but didn’t know how, so she asked her brother to teach her.

• Susan knew how to play the guitar, but her brother could play it better, so she asked him to help her.

• Susan knew how to play the guitar, but her brother could play it better, so she asked him to help her.

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• Zainab wanted to play with her friends, but her mother was too busy, so they built a club house with couch cushions.

• Zainab was disappointed because she couldn’t build a club house, so she called her friends to come over and play.

• Because Zainab’s mother needed the house to be quiet, Zainab couldn’t play inside with her friends, and so they played outside.

• Building a couch cushion club house was so important to Zainab that she decided to disobey her mother and build one anyway.

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• Deepthi recorded Ms. Lila doing the dance steps so she could watch the video instead of going to the recital.

• Ms. Lila wanted Deepthi to learn the dance steps in time for the recital, but Deepthi struggled to do them correctly.

• Deepthi and Ms. Lila wanted to make a video for the dance recital, but Deepthi didn’t know how to dance well.

• Because she struggled to do the steps on her own, Deepthi recorded her teacher and practiced the dance at home until she knew it for the recital.

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• Vani wanted some Wheaty Flakes, but Aashi had eaten the last of them, and so Vani went to the store and bought her own box.

• Vani loved Wheaty Flakes so much that she didn’t want to share with her sister, and so she bought her own box.

• Aashi wouldn’t let Vani have any Wheaty Flakes because they were her favorite, and so she suggested that Vani get her own box.

• Vani and Aashi ran out of cereal, so they rode their bicycles to the store together to buy some more.

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• Patrice was a yellow belt in karate and wished she was a black belt, so she asked Anna for help.

• Patrice wanted to be a black belt in karate, but she didn’t know karate, and so she started taking classes to learn.

• Patrice wanted to be in movies like Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris, but she didn’t know how to do karate, and so she took a class with her friend Anna.

• Patrice loved karate, but didn’t know how to become a black belt, so she asked Anna for more information.

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• Tai was embarrassed when she came to school late, but she didn’t know how to get there on time, and so she tried going to bed earlier.

• Tai wanted to wake up earlier, but she didn’t have an alarm clock, and so she was late every day.

• Tai couldn’t get to school on time because she woke up too late, and so she used an alarm clock to wake up.

• Tai hated being late, but she was always waking up after school had started.

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• Kim wanted a delicious cookie, but her parents said she had to do her chores first, and so she imagined a cookie while she worked.

• The ingredients Kim saw in the pantry gave her the idea to make cookies.

• Although Kim finished all of her chores, she couldn’t have any cookies because there weren’t any in the kitchen.

• There were no cookies for Kim to have for dessert after she finished all of her tasks, and so she made some.

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• Twyla had writer’s block, so she asked her little brothers to draw some characters, which she used to write her story.

• Twyla wanted to write a story about a dinosaur and a boy, so she had her little brothers draw pictures of the characters to inspire her.

• Twyla’s writer’s block was keeping her from writing anything, so she decided to draw with crayons instead.

• Twyla’s brothers wanted her to write a story, so they drew some pictures of the characters they wanted in the story.

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• Kristin’s paintings of nature were her Dad’s favorite thing, so she wanted to paint him a tree, but couldn’t decide how to do it.

• Kristin wanted to paint a picture for her dad, but she couldn’t think of anything, and so she looked around for inspiration and decided to paint a tree.

• Kristin wanted to paint a tree for her dad, but she couldn’t find a tree outside to use as a model, and so she used a picture of a tree as a model, instead.

• Kristin wanted to paint a picture for her dad, but he didn’t like natural objects, and so she painted something else.

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