Somebody Wanted But So Then – 4-Chart Anchor Set
- Grades
- Grades 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Literature
- Topic
- SWBST, Story summary
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- RL.1.2
Product description
From the author
This resource is a set of 4 anchor charts for the reading strategy 'Somebody Wanted But So Then.' Two charts are complete and two are fill-in versions. These charts would work great on a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students identify a story's main character, goal, central problem, attempted solution, and ending using the SWBST framework.
Students write a summary that includes character, setting, problem, events, and solution.
Students complete a blanked-out version of each chart from memory or class discussion, reinforcing the vocabulary introduced on the complete version.
Teaching tips
Post the complete anchor chart pages first, then hand out the blank versions for students to fill in during guided practice or in an interactive notebook.
Use the Summarizing chart's five elements (characters, setting, problem, events, solution) as a checklist students can apply to any story, not just one assigned text.
Pair the SWBST and Summarizing charts together, since the file presents them as a two-part set covering the same skill from two angles.
Skills covered
Story-element identification — students locate the character, goal, problem, solution, and ending of a narrative using the SWBST structure.
Summary writing — students retell a story's main events using the five elements named on the Summarizing chart.
Academic vocabulary — students learn and reuse the acronym SWBST and the term ‘summary’ across both chart pairs.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How do the two chart pairs in this set relate to each other?
The Somebody/Wanted/But/So/Then chart identifies a story's character, goal, problem, and ending, while the Summarizing chart reuses the same SWBST idea to explain how to turn those elements into a written summary — each pair has a complete version and a matching fill-in-the-blank version.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- RL.1.2 — Supports retelling a story through its character, goal, problem, events and ending.
Core concepts
Core concepts
Story elements
Summarizing
Narrative structure
Topics
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