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3rd - 7th Grade Common Core Story Elements Educational Resources

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

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Sort the Story Elements

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 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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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Glossary: Scary Story Elements

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

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Vocabulary Cards: Scary Story Elements

Use this lesson to teach your students to identify story elements and compare them to another text's story elements. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Comparing Texts by the Same Author* lesson.

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Pick Out the Parts of a Story

Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts.

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Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!

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Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

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Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

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Compare and Contrast Short Stories

Are your students hooking their readers? Use this creative and imaginative writing exercise that will bring student beginnings to life.

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Let's Hook 'Em!

Good readers analyze texts by looking at similarities and differences. Use this lesson to teach your students to compare and contrast the story elements of two fiction texts.

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3rd - 7th Grade Common Core Story Elements Educational Resources

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