Teaching story elements

Find 5 simple and effective ideas for teaching story elements in your upper grades reading classroom. Why should we teach story elements? Find out why this is important to comprehension and ways to help students.

Find out about an engaging story elements game that easily works with any fiction text that your students will beg you to play!

These free story elements activities are a ton of fun for students and teachers. Kids in kindergarten and first grade will love reading the story of The Princess and the Frog while learning about story elements. The activities are great for small groups, whole group lessons as well as homework. Grab them for free!

We all know the importance of reading stories in the the classroom. They can build background knowledge on a topic being discussed. It is a great way to increase vocabulary. Students get excited about learning. Plus, you can increase students reading and listening comprehension. I want to challenge you to go beyond they everyday read ... Read More about Interactive Read Aloud

Find reading strategies for teaching story elements. Includes a freebie to help apply the strategies. These are helpful for improving reading comprehension.

Understanding Story Elements

Using Fairytales To Teach Story Elements is perfect for first and second grade classrooms! Learn more and a free sorting game here!

Check out this comprehensive list of the best books for teaching story elements! These picture books are a great way to introduce story elements in kindergarten and first grade. Each of these stories makes a good mentor text to follow up with activities, worksheets, graphic organizers, or small group lessons. Get ideas to teach reading skills during language arts by using reading workshop and guided reading to encourage kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade literacy. Read more here!

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