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5th Grade - Story Elements

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Identify setting, characters, plot, and theme. SPI 0501.8.1


Links verified on 9/12/2014


  1. Analyzing the setting - graphic organizer for students An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  2. Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Fiction, Setting the Story - learn how authors manipulate time and space, mood, and spatial order in descriptions of settings A lesson plan can be found at this site
  4. Interactive Plot Building Game - not quite halfway down the page you will find a blue background with three white blocks, read the instructions and give it a try This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  5. Plot Chart - chart the plot with this graphic organizer An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  6. Plot Development - article with example of how a plot is developed This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  7. Plot diagram - interactive tool to chart a circle plot - demonstration of how to use this tool given This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  8. Plot Diagram - interactive tool to chart beginning to ending of plot - demonstration of how to use this tool given This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  9. Plot Outline - graphic chart for students An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  10. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsProblem/Solution Chart - Fill out this chart as a whole class activity brainstorming session to learn to recognize problems and solutions in stories. This uses cause and effect, but can be adapted.
  11. Serendipitous Crazy Cartoon Plots - an interactive writing idea generator This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  12. Story Character Outline - print and let students complete information about the story they are reading This link includes something for the teacher to print
  13. Story Element Quiz - learn the definitions of parts of a story This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding
  14. Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  15. Story Shackles (Linking Students To Written Text) - Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text A lesson plan can be found at this site
  16. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Stew - Lesson plan to introduce story elements. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  17. Story Writing Tips for Kids - The author says, "If you follow these tips, you should end up with a great story plan."
  18. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsTeaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  19. Theme - lesson and activity on how to find themes
  20. Using Excel to Make a Plot Tension Graph - step by step directions on using Excel to make a plot tension graph A Microsoft Word document to be downloaded
  21. Walk Two Moons: An Integrated Unit - integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry A lesson plan can be found at this site
  22. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsWriting about Theme - [advanced - designed for grade 10] lesson plan - format could be adapted to another story [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.] A lesson plan can be found at this site

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