Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.

Listen to an explanation of the story elements in Cinderella including exposition, characters, setting, sequence, conflict, climax, and resolution.

Explore different ingredients, or elements, that go into stories and make them so much fun. Read the story, "Cinderella," and look at all the different pieces of the tale to see how they all fit together.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This one page flipchart is to be used specifically with the novel The Green Dog by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The teacher and/or learner will put the story events in the correct order.

View the online exhibit featuring photographs, documents--opening night telegraphs, letters, notes by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, set designs--and other items such as posters, DVD covers, and a pair of slippers worn in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on sequencing where students use book Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson to identify flashbacks and the text "Leaving Home" to arrange details into chronological order for a...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...

A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...

Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.

Learn how to recount a story or tell the plot of a fable, folktale, or myth. Practice exercises are included.

Several examples of predictable books are listed and organized according to type. In addition to providing titles of children's books, this resource lists related titles for young adult readers. The bibliography includes several...

This activity will help you teach students chronological order as well as identifying key people and events. Printable worksheets.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...

Listen to an explanation about the series of events in Cinderella. Then look at some pictures where the story's events are all mixed up and put them in the correct order.

This lesson plan requires three writing assignments on the topic or war or conflict: 1. Once familiar with the language, types, rhyme and metre used in poetry, students then write their own. They are given a selection of types to write,...

In this second six-week unit of Kindergarten, students focus on sequence as they enjoy "Counting Books," both fiction and informational, and stories based on "three."

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are introduced to the concept of story sequencing and are asked to sequence ideas within several story situations.

Choose your story, then answer the multiple choice questions, recreate the story in the proper order, and summarize the action using the interactive exercises.

This site shares a lesson plan. Teachers will use the mythical character named The Magical Mr. Tumblebuddy Flipet to help share students engage in the writing process of stories. Directions for a puppet activity related to the lesson are...

Listen to and read along with this story about a princess and a dragon. You can choose the ending to the story. Then print off activities to go along with the story.

Interactive storyboarding activity in developing a logical story line by sequencing and captioning a series of twelve pictures.