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Main Story Elements Organizing What You Read Activity

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Story Elements: Organizing What You Read cover, with directions to describe a story's characters, setting and events
Introduce the set and read the directions aloud together
Story map: students record a book's title and author, then its characters, setting, problem and solution
Post-reading organizer for any read-aloud or guided reading book
Characters mat: students write or draw the characters from a story in the open space around the heading
Focus page for discussing who is in the story
Setting mat: students write or draw where and when a story takes place in the open space around the heading
Use with picture clues to talk about place and time
Events mat: students write or draw what happens in a story in the open space around the heading
Retelling practice: record what happened in the story
Story elements organizer: students note a story's characters and setting, then list its main events
Independent response sheet after reading a story
Summarizing organizer: students take notes and list events from a story, then write a summary of it
Builds from note-taking to a written summary
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Reading

Grades

Preschool, Grade 1, 2, 3

Types

Literacy Readers, Teacher Tools

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
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About This Product

This activity is great for helping students to organize what they read. The worksheets and graphic organizers will guide them through describing the characters, setting and events. This is a great activity for teachers who want to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills.

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Resource Tags

Independent and Guided Reading Reading Comprehension Reading Response Story Elements

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