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Story Elements in

Story Elements in. Story Maps. Essential Question How do I use story elements to help me summarize literary text? Vocabulary: Characters, setting, plot (problem and solution). When we use a STORY MAP as a pre- and post- reading activity, we can increase our reading comprehension.

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Story Elements in

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  1. Story Elements in Story Maps

  2. Essential Question How do I use story elements to help me summarize literary text? Vocabulary: Characters, setting, plot (problem and solution)

  3. When we use a STORY MAP as a pre- and post- reading activity, we can increase our reading comprehension.

  4. A story map is a graphic organizer that helps us to organize the information from the books that we read. Story maps can help us “find our way” through a book much like a regular map shows where places are.

  5. Name of storybook:____________________ Author:______________________________ Setting: When Where Characters: Who: Problem: Story Events: Beginning Middle End Solution:

  6. Setting:When: Where:

  7. Characters:Who:

  8. Problem:

  9. Events: Beginning: 1. 2. Middle: 3. 4. End: 5. 6. • 4

  10. Conclusion:How was the problem solved?What lesson was learned?

  11. The story map teaches us about story structure and the elements that make a good story. These elements correspond to the basic questions one would ask about any story: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW.

  12. Using a Story Map to Summarize • When summarizing a book, remember to keep your words limited…no more than 2 sentences. • SENTENCE 1: Who did whatwhen/where? (main idea) • SENTENCE 2: Why or How? (details/events…problem and solution)

  13. Lucky Libby Read “Lucky Libby” and complete the story map. Summarize Lucky Libby using the story map and the 2-sentence summarizing method.

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