Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Practice identifying elements of a story in this simple sorting activity!

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.