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Story Elements

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Story Elements

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    1. Story Elements This presentation is best shown over several days. There are natural breaks after character and setting, conflict, plot, and theme. (My student would never sit through the entire thing in one day—it’s way too much information) For more on teaching students how to understand text, check out Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling or The Forest AND the Trees: Helping Students to Identify Details in Texts and Tests, both by Emily Kissner.This presentation is best shown over several days. There are natural breaks after character and setting, conflict, plot, and theme. (My student would never sit through the entire thing in one day—it’s way too much information) For more on teaching students how to understand text, check out Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling or The Forest AND the Trees: Helping Students to Identify Details in Texts and Tests, both by Emily Kissner.

    2. What do all stories have in common? Characters Point of View Setting Conflict (problem) Plot (events) Theme More questions? Comments? Contact me through the TeachersPayTeachers site—I’d be happy to talk with you. -EmilyMore questions? Comments? Contact me through the TeachersPayTeachers site—I’d be happy to talk with you. -Emily

    3. Characters Characters are the people, animals, or objects who make the action happen in a story A story can have many characters, or just a few Can students think of a story that has people as characters? Animals? Objects? Can students think of a story that has people as characters? Animals? Objects?

    4. Protagonist/antagonist Protagonist: the central character (main character) Antagonist: whatever opposing force the protagonist struggles with (it may be a character, the environment, or something within the protagonist)

    5. Can you name the characters in these stories? The Three Little Pigs Cinderella Spider-Man Ratatouille The Frog Prince My students actually had trouble naming the characters in some of these stories, so I pulled students to the front of the room to act them out. This helped them to understand how stories have important characters and minor characters.My students actually had trouble naming the characters in some of these stories, so I pulled students to the front of the room to act them out. This helped them to understand how stories have important characters and minor characters.

    6. Point of View Point of View: The vantage point from which a story is told We will look at three different points of view Omniscient First person Third person

    7. Omniscient Point of View Omni means-all Sciens- to know So—omniscient means all knowing The author writes the story so that the reader knows what everyone is feeling and thinking.

    8. First Person Point of View In first person the main character tells the story. The story is written using the pronoun “I.”

    9. Third Person Point of View In the third person point of view the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

    10. Setting The setting is the time and place of the story Fourth graders are just beginning to understand that setting refers to the time of the story as well as the place.Fourth graders are just beginning to understand that setting refers to the time of the story as well as the place.

    11. Can you find the setting of this scene? Place This picture is of a beach Time It’s hard to tell the time from this picture. We’d need more details to figure that out Note: It’s actually Assateague Island, but there are no details in the photo that would indicate that.Note: It’s actually Assateague Island, but there are no details in the photo that would indicate that.

    12. Inferring setting Anna sighed. She hated having to do so many chores. Her mother was always telling her to fetch the water from the well, watch her brothers and sisters, and fetch wood for the fire. “I wish that I could go to school,” she sighed, looking at her bare feet. But with her father in the Union Army, she had to help her mother.

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