Characters, Setting and Events in Fiction Texts Resources

Students will discover the importance of characters, settings, and events in text through these resources. Short blocks of text followed by comprehensive questions help teach your student what to look for in text and why it is important. Lesson plans and activities make the lesson complete and unforgettable. Get more practice with our answering questions with evidence resources.

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Choice Storyboard

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Choice Storyboard

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Compare & Contrast Fairy Tale Settings

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Compare & Contrast Fairy Tale Settings

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Worksheet

A Kidnapped Santa Claus: Page 2

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A Kidnapped Santa Claus: Page 2

Imagine if someone decided to kidnap Santa Claus! Enjoy this Christmas story by L. Frank Baum, the author of Wizard of Oz.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Bun Bun Button Character Traits

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Bun Bun Button Character Traits

In this lesson, you will read the heartwarming story of Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco to your class. Students will then use their own reading skills to describe the two main characters in the story.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

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Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

5th grade

Reading & writing

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Set the Scene

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Set the Scene

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Character Traits

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Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Character Traits

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Who is Behind the Wizard of Oz?

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Who is Behind the Wizard of Oz?

Your child will identify the author and illustrator of the book by circling the appropriate names on the cover of the book.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

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Vocabulary Cards: Character Comparisons

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Vocabulary Cards: Character Comparisons

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

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Glossary: Exploring Fictional Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Language Frames: Character Changes

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Language Frames: Character Changes

Use this simple template to identify a character's feelings, challenges, and resolution throughout a text.

Reading & writing

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The Selfish Giant

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The Selfish Giant

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Glossary: Verbs that Show Character Action

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Glossary: Verbs that Show Character Action

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Vocabulary Cards: Exploring Fictional Text

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Vocabulary Cards: Exploring Fictional Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Exploring Fictional Text

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Exploring Fictional Text

This lesson will provide your EL students with support as they explore the elements of fictional text and learn about verbs in the present participle tense. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

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Glossary: Who are the Key Characters?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Vocabulary Cards: Verbs that Show Character Action

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Vocabulary Cards: Verbs that Show Character Action

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Vocabulary Cards: Characters and Settings

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Vocabulary Cards: Characters and Settings

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Vocabulary Cards: Making Text Connections

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Vocabulary Cards: Making Text Connections

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Character Comparisons

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Character Comparisons

Use this lesson to help your ELs compare and contrast supporting characters from excerpted texts. It can be a stand-alone lesson or support the lesson Understanding Character Traits, Understanding Plot Lesson Part III.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Looking at Character Actions

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Looking at Character Actions

Use this resource to teach your students to pick out character actions from the text as they answer questions.

Reading & writing

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Vocabulary Cards: Who are the Key Characters?

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Vocabulary Cards: Who are the Key Characters?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Compare the Characters

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Compare the Characters

Have your young reader describe and compare three of his favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Peter Pan Analysis 1

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Peter Pan Analysis 1

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but she'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

5th grade

Reading & writing

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Characters, Setting, and Events in Fiction Texts Resources

Characters, setting, and events all work together to form great stories. Characters drive the story forward while the setting sets the entire atmosphere and tone to a story. Characters and setting interact to create events. Throughout elementary education, young learners will investigate these elements of narrative writing.

Character Changes Order is a printable worksheet that looks at how people in a story change over time. Graphic Organizer: Problem & Solution is an assignment on how characters overcome (or don't overcome) a challenge. There are also many lesson plans that examine character, setting, and events. Identifying Character Traits looks at textual evidence to support a claim behind determining a person's nature and personality. There are plenty of printable workbooks that include a multitude of worksheets, prompts, and other lessons. Students will have a strong sense of how these features of storytelling interact with one another to create an engaging read to the very last page with Education.com's tools on characters, setting, and events in fiction texts.

Characters, Setting and Events in Fiction Texts Resources

Characters, Setting, and Events in Fiction Texts Resources

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