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.

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.