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Preschool - 5th Grade Story Elements Educational Resources

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

Story Elements Map

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

Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

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

Sort the Story Elements

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

Compare Story Elements

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

Story Elements: Compare & Contrast

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

Story Elements in Sentences

Get learners&#39; creative juices flowing with this fun Independence Day-themed writing prompt!

Independence Day Creative Writing Prompt #1: Fantastic Fireworks

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

Elements of a Story: Sort It Out!

Through this lesson, your students will use academic vocabulary to discuss character traits, author's purpose, and the sequence of events in a story.

Learn Story Elements

If you could have music class with any famous musician, who would it be? Write about it with this creative writing prompt!

Back to School Creative Writing Prompt #1: A Memorable Music Class

Teach your class about the genre of traditional literature, made up of stories from around the world that have been told for generations. In this lesson, students will read fairy tales and compare story elements in each piece of literature.

Elements of Traditional Literature

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

Elements of a Story: Circle Chart

Write about a mysterious message with this fun prompt!

Back to School Creative Writing Prompt #2: The Peculiar Paper

What unusual item could your character find in the library? Find out with this fun writing activity!

Back to School Creative Writing Prompt #3: The Lucky Library

This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.

Literature 1

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

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

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.

What Happened Next?

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

Comparing Two Stories

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.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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.

Story Mountain Prewriting

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

Glossary: Learn Story 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.

Story Roadmap

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

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.

Close Reading in Fiction

We all love a good story, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of what's important. Teach your kid how to map a story with this fun and engaging worksheet.

Story Mapping

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!

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

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!

Ingredients of a Story

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

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