STORY ELEMENT ANCHOR CHART HOW TO

Students will need one piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

If you’re working with less advanced writers, try a simple flip book.

One way to isolate the beginning, middle, and end events is to have students read a text and follow up with writing what three main events happen in each specific part. Play hypothetical situations out for each story you read during this unit where the beginning, middle, or end never happened. Teach the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end in isolation. Focus on the beginning, middle, and ending in isolation and the events that happen within them. This can also carry over and help with student writing when it comes to narratives! 2. Or read one story a day and as a class, fill out the BME, and put them on the Post-it notes. That way, the students can associate a story from prior knowledge to the BME. Then, take three very popular and well-known stories from the class and write a quick BME explanation of each on Post-it notes. On this anchor chart, write about what happens in the beginning, middle, and end. Try a class anchor chart to kick off your story structure unit.

STORY ELEMENT ANCHOR CHART HOW TO

Teach students how to find them and what to look for! Start by simply teaching what types of things happen in the beginning, middle, and end. Teach the overall structure of a story with a beginning, middle, and end. stories/chapters/drama/scene/poem/stanzaįive Key Tasks for Teachers 1.RL.4.5- Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.

RL.3.5- Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.

RL.2.5- Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Here are the three common core standards we will be discussing. This standard focuses explicitly on referring to the text and is not a standard for first grade, just 2nd and 3rd. Although 1st graders should definitely learn about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, they focus on that more during retelling and story elements. Text structure focuses on beginning, middle, and end and is taught in 2nd and 3rd grades. We will learn how to dive deeper into the beginning, middle, and ending of fiction texts. This week, I’m going to discuss 5 tips for teaching story structure.

Story element anchor chart