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.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

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

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

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 to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

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.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

The next time you're having story time, be sure to use this fairy tale graphic organizer to boost comprehension!

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

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.

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!

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.