Describe Characters and Setting Activity

Description

How to teach Story Elements

Using Describe Characters and Setting Activity, students explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story.

Story Elements are the most important pieces of a book. Being able to determine the story elements of a book will help your students build reading comprehension.

Students will read “A Day at the Beach” and draw pictures of the setting and characters based on words in the story. Then, students can continue to practice this skill as they read any text with this graphic organizer.

Other resources to use with this Describe Characters and Setting Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about Story Elements.

Use this Story Elements Reading Graphic Organizer as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this activity by listening to the Have Fun Teaching Story Elements Song. Next, students share ideas about what they know about Story Elements. Then, students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students share about the story elements in the book that they have read. Students can continue their practice by recording examples of character, setting, and major events in other books that they have read.

Be sure to check out more Story Elements Worksheets.

Please write a review!

Tell others why you love this resource and how you will use it.