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- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students use a story wheel to practice sequencing skills, summarizing a novel, visualizing story elements and recognizing story structure. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students listen and respond to fictional story by creating a story structure mobile illustrating the main characters, setting, plot, problem, story events, and solution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify and describe the elements of a story. They discuss short story elements by viewing a website, write group short stories, complete the Elements of a Story slideshow template, and present their slideshow to the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore the characteristics of story structure, specifically sequence of events. They discuss the words first, next, after, and when. Students write simple stories using sequence of events. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students explore story structure. They discuss questions they can ask themselves while silently reading. Students implement their story knowledge by making story maps. They read The Little Pink Rose and the Cloud and create a story map while reading. Students ask questions while reading. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students identify the main elements of "story structure" and form questions to summarize their reading. They listen as the teacher reads a story and then write questions to determine (1) main characters, (2) setting, (3) problem, and (4) solution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to the concept of story structure as a way to aid in reading comprehension. They identify the main parts of the story as they read. Students create a story map of the main plot points of their reading. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine the structure of stories in order to increase their reading comprehension. They look at the purpose of the beginning, the main characters, the goal or problem, and the resolution as the story structure. As they read two pieces of non-fiction, they answer questions in a class discussion. They make a story map of the second selection before completing one as an assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine story structure and determine how to ask questions to improve reading comprehension. They read an article and practice answering questions in a teacher lead lesson before completing the task independently. Next they make a story map of "The Secret of Silver Pond" in a whole group before making one of "Whooz-z-z Snooz-z-zing?" that is used as an assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students are introduced to the various devices used in the short story. Given short stories in various forms (written, visual, etc.), students identify the structural devices present in all short stories. After class discussion, students write their own short stories based on a picture they are given. Full Review »

