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Reading can be a rollercoaster with its ups and downs! Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.

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Story Structure Rollercoaster

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

story mapping group work

Story Mapping Group Work

Get your preschoolers ready for reading by practicing story sequencing. Testing their knowledge of how things are ordered will help them improve their reading comprehension skills.

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Your Day: Story Sequencing

In honor of Chinese New Year, share with your students a famous Chinese story called *The Monkey King*. Students will practice their comprehension skills as they retell the story, identifying what happens in the beginning, middle, and end. 

retelling of the monkey king a famous chinese story

Retelling of The Monkey King: A Famous Chinese Story

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.   

using story elements to compare and contrast fiction texts

Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts

This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.

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Craft Stick Story Elements

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!

traditional literature story mapping

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

Story elements help to bring beloved fairy tales to life in this literacy lesson. Your students will learn to identify the title, author, setting, characters, problem, and solution in a fiction text.

fairy tales identifying story elements

Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements

Your students will enjoy reading the classic story “The Ugly Duckling,” written about a very lovable duck! This reading lesson also includes a fun partner activity to help your students practice comprehension.

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Read and Retell a Classic Story

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

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The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

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

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

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The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns

In this lesson, students get practice with finding the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Have your students help you fix a mixed up story while they learn the parts of a story.

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Beginning, Middle, and End Mix Up

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details. 

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What Happened?

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

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Characters Change Just Like We Do

In this lesson, students will listen to a story and answer literacy questions throughout. They will then complete a math activity to go along with the story!

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Caps For Sale!

Use a short story that can be told entirely in idioms and students will get the picture! Students match story strip text to idioms in this interactive exercise that includes a matching worksheet assessment. 

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Get the Picture? Take a Shot at Idioms

Have you ever read a story and immediately began to compare the characters to those of your favorite story? In this lesson, students will learn to read context clues and descriptions in order to understand characters and compare them.

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Understanding Character Traits, Understanding Plot Lesson Part III

In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

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It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Connect addition with real-world problem solving as students analyze and solve story problems.


act it out

Act it Out!

Are the stories the same or different? You decide! Use this lesson with your students to practice comparing the story elements in two fictional stories written by the same author. 

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The Same or Different? You Decide!

Let your class act out! Students will reenact Goldilocks and the Three Bears while learning about narratives and story plots.

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Goldilocks and the Beginning, Middle, and End

Your class will have so much fun reading books about the zoo and sharing reactions about the story that your they will be itching for a class field trip to the zoo!

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A Day at the Zoo

This literature-based lesson teaches students about answering key questions and understanding a character's point of view. It'll have young readers roaring, thumping, and having tons of fun as they imitate story characters.

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Put Me in the Zoo

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

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Simple Summaries

This is a great introductory lesson to teach about beginning blends. Kindergarten students will love learning all about how to blend consonants together while reading a hilarious story!

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Blending Sounds

Some problems are easy to fix, while some are more complicated. Use this lesson to teach your students to identify the characters’ attempts in a story to solve problems. 

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How Do You Solve a Problem?

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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Finding Similarities and Differences

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.

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