2nd and 3rd Grade Story Elements Worksheets

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.

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

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

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

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

If your child is doing a book report, help your young reader learn more about the setting of a book with this worksheet.

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

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

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

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

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.

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

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

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

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

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

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

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

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.

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!

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.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.