Spring Into Story Maps

Just tap and drag to create concept maps with custom images, colors, fonts, clipart, and more. This versatile app can help your pupils brainstorm, outline, storyboard, study, and categorize information in any number of ways for any...

Fill-out a story map to help your scholars with pre-writing. They will use a story map template to pre-write. They also organize their ideas into steps which become the foundation for their first draft. Concrete objects are brought in to...

Read the book The Cat in the Hat and categorize words from it into phonemic patterns. Young readers will also complete a story map about The Cat in the Hat. The goal is to exercise their phonological awareness skills and understanding of...

Extend the exhilarating learning experience of Dr. Seuss with five activities designed to reinforce literacy skills—site word reading, dialogue writing, story mapping, and more! Featured stories include The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, The...

Students illustrate and label story elements of a picture book. In this story elements literacy lesson, students listen to a read-aloud chosen by the teacher or parent volunteer, then work in a small group to complete a story elements...

Students explore kamishibai stories, Japanese stories told through illustrated picture cards, and become familiar with their form. Afterward, they develop their own illustrated kamishibai story. Students discuss the process of drawing,...

Students read stories from various cultures and create a passport indicating the completion and comprehension of the story. The template for the passport is included. The lesson can be used for a broad range of ages depending on the...

Students review their physical models of the objects on their playground at school. Using the model, they convert it into a map with a scale and key. To end the lesson, they use the map to locate different objects and measure the...

Students analyze classic children's stories by creating story maps.  In this children's literature instructional activity, students read Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and practice retelling the story with picture cards that need to be...

Discuss the reading comprehension strategy of summarization with your elementary schoolers! They read a chapter from their social studies textbook, Regions Near and Far, and create a map, or word web, for the chapter. They identify...