Story Elements | Characters, Setting, and Plot

Teach story elements to your kindergarten and first grade students with this unit focused on the story elements Characters, Setting, and Plot. Use classic the classic folktales and nursery rhymes in this set, as well as books of your choosing with these anchor charts, whole group activities, small group activities, stations, and no-prep printables!

Listed are ALL the activities included in this set!

Characters:

• Poster

• Poem

• Main Character/Other Character chart for The Little Red Hen

• Character Traits with The Little Red Hen

• Class Book

• Types of Characters Sort

• Character Yearbook to Use with Independent Reading

• 3 no prep printables

Setting:

• Poster

• Poem

• Changing Settings with The Gingerbread Man

• Generic Anchor Chart

• Describe It: Setting Cards for Partner Activity

• Roscoe's Road Trip: Whole Group Setting Scavenger Hunt

• Searching For Settings Book for Independent Reading

• 5 no prep printables

Plot:

• Posters

• Poem

• 3 Generic Anchor Charts

• Teaching Plot with 3 Little Pigs (BME and Problem/Solution)

• 3 Little Pigs Sequencing Activities

• 3 Little Pigs Props for Dramatization

• Beginning, Middle, End Train

• First, Next, Then, Last Build a Burger

• Problem and Solution Cards and Puzzles

• 4 Sequencing Flip Books

• 3 no prep printables

Putting it All Together:

• Generic Anchor Chart

• Teaching with Golidlocks and the Three Bears

• Retelling Craft for Goldlilocks

• 5 Finger Retell Posters

• 3 Nursery Rhyme Readers with Story Element Questions

• Retelling Cards to go with Nursery Rhyme Readers

• Silly Stories: Building Stories with Story Element Cards

• 5 differentiated Readers Theatre Scripts

• 3 no prep printables

• 2 Decodable Comprehension Passages

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