This is a PDF of a ReadWriteThink plot structure diagram chart form for students to use on short stories. It includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, theme, and protagonist and antagonist.

A slide show with ten slides about the parts of a plot development: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

A slide show with twenty-one slides explaining elements of plot including: characters, setting, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

Teaching the plot structure of narratives is made easy with this diagram of Freytag's Triangle (also known as the plot pyramid).