2nd - 8th Grade Story Elements Worksheets

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.

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.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

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

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.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

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.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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!

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

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.