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1st - 8th Grade Story Elements Resources

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.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

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

Sort the Story Elements

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Reading Comprehension: Lost and Found

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: “King Chameleon and the Animals” and “The Hare and the Tortoise”

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

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

Story Elements in Sentences

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

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.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Elements of a Story: Sort It Out!

Before reading Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these&nbsp;pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Pre-Reading Activity

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 1&ndash;8&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #1

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Close Reading in Fiction

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

Compare Story Elements

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.

Literature 1

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 9&ndash;14&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.&nbsp;

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #2

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Story Mountain Prewriting

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

What's Behind the Door?

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 12&ndash;15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #4

Use this final discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapter 15 through the end&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #3

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Story Roadmap

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

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1st - 8th Grade Story Elements Resources