Story Elements Hands on Reading Comprehension Activities and Lesson Plans
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This GROWING bundle includes hands-on lesson plans and activities to teach language comprehension strategies and skills. Each unit begins with concrete experiences and a gradual release of responsibility with hands-on games, partner work, and activities.Each unit is organized by days and includes anPrice $49.50Original Price $70.75Save $21.25
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This bundle is full of hands-on, engaging resources to teach characters, setting, and the major events in a story. It includes PowerPoint presentations, mini-lessons, class games, partner games, task cards, puzzles, scavenger hunts, a craft, reading response activities, passages, and SO MUCH MORE!
This unit answers the following questions:
•Who are characteres?
•What is the importance of characters in a story?
•What are character traits?
•How do key details help determine character traits?
•What is a setting?
•What key details describe a setting?
•What is the relationship between characters, setting, and events?
•How can I determine the beginning, middle, and end of a story?
•What is the problem?
•What is the solution?
The goal of this unit is to give your students an introduction to story elements. The sequence of instruction begins by introducing characters. Students learn/review what a character is and the importance of characters in a story. Students are also introduced to character traits. Once the importance of characters are understood, setting is introduced. Students learn what a setting is, the importance of the setting, and the relationship between the setting and characters in the story. Last, students are introduced to the major events in the story.
This unit focuses on the following standard:
RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Included in this unit:
- Notes to the Teacher
- Book Suggestions (You do not need specific books for this unit.)
- Weekly Overview
- Day 1 – Introduction to characters mini-lesson and anchor chart
- Day 2 – Character/Not a character cut and sort
- Day 3 – Character Traits Mini-Lesson and anchor chart
- Day 4 – Character Trait Riddles Mini-Posters
- Day 5 –Character Trait Reading Response Craft
- Day 6 – Introduction to Setting Mini-Lesson and Anchor Chart
- Introduction to Setting PowerPoint
- Day 7 – Character Trait/Setting Card Match-Up
- Day 8 – Character, Setting, and Event Puzzle Match
- Day 9 – Story Elements with Movie Clip
- Day 10 – Introduction to Beginning, Middle, End Mini-Lesson
- BME PowerPoint
- Day 11 – Beginning, Middle, End Practice with Short Passages
- Day 12 – Introduction to Problem and Solution Mini-Lesson, Anchor Chart, Task Cards
- Day 13 Select a character, setting, and problem – Work with partners to write a story that includes a solution.
- Day 14 – Story Elements Task Cards
- Day 15 - Assessment
- Four Passages – Highlight the characters, setting, events, problem, solution
- Reading Response with Examples (Characters, Setting, BME, Problem/Solution)
This unit is organized by days of instruction. However, there are some lessons that will probably take longer. This unit usually takes me about a month to complete in my first-grade classroom. There are passages and reading response sheets included as an extra. Use these in reading groups or as you see fit!
