3rd and 4th Grade Story Elements Worksheets

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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