Finding Story Elements Activity
Using this Finding Story Elements Activity, students help three superheroes defeat the evil villain Story Weaver and crack the code in a story. Use the boxes on the next pages to help them do their job!
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How to teach Story Elements
Using this Finding Story Elements Activity, students help three superheroes defeat the evil villain Story Weaver and crack the code in a story. Use the boxes on the next pages to help them do their job!
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.
Choose a grade-level storybook to read to your students. Cut out the story elements cards. Some have been left blank for you to fill in. Have students fill in as many cards as they can about story elements. Then students decide if the two elements they are comparing are mostly similar or mostly different and place them in the appropriate place on the Story Weaver monster’s page. Finally, discuss why the elements were similar or different.
Other resources to use with this Finding Story Elements 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, read a grade-level storybook to your class. Then, students share ideas about what they know about Story Elements. Finally, students complete the activity with a partner, discussing their reasoning for why they placed their card in the Mostly Different or Mostly Similar pile. Students can continue their practice by recording examples of characters, settings, and major events in other books that they have read.
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