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2nd - 7th Grade Common Core Story Elements Educational Resources

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.

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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

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

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Sort the Story Elements

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they&#39;ve read.

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What Happened Next?

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

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Comparing Two Stories

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

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Reading Comprehension: Lost and Found

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

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Story Elements Map

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

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Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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.

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Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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

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Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 1&ndash;8&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #1

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

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Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

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.

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Story Mountain Prewriting

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

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Story Elements in Sentences

Before reading Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these&nbsp;pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Pre-Reading Activity

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

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Elements of a Story: Sort It Out!

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

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Close Reading in Fiction

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 12&ndash;15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #4

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

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Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Use this discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapters 9&ndash;14&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.&nbsp;

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #2

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

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Compare Story Elements

Use this final discussion guide to support readers&rsquo; comprehension of chapter 15 through the end&nbsp;of Linda Sue Park&rsquo;s A Long Walk to Water.

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Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water: Discussion Guide #3

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!

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"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

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

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What's Behind the Door?

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!

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Ingredients of a Story

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

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What Makes a Fantasy?

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.

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2nd - 7th Grade Common Core Story Elements Educational Resources

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