Setting in a story activities

Learning about story elements can help students improve their comprehension skills. In this post, I'm sharing tips for teaching story elements in kindergarten. Your students will love these fun activities to help them learn more about character, setting, and plot. Click here to take a closer look at these story element activities for kindergarten.

Story elements are the five components that make up a story. They are the characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution. These elements keep the story running smoothly and allow the action to develop in a logical way that the reader can follow. Retelling involves students orally reconstructing a story that they have read or has been read to them. A student's retell should include characters, settings, and events in the logical sequence of the story.

Story retell hands are perfect for story sequence, character, and setting in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. It's a reminder for students

Teaching setting of a story in first grade and second grade with these activities makes it meaningful and fun! Students learn how to find the setting of a story with a week's worth of lesson plans and extra printables and activities to spiral it throughout the year. #settingofastory

Engage your kindergarten students in core retell practice with fun activities, crafts and this FREE retelling sign.

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

If you're ever stuck for play ideas, then stories are a great starting point. Your toddler's favourite story can be brought to life through play and might even spark a further interest in reading!This compilation

Story baskets are a fabulous hands-on way to extend, engage and enrich. Be it language, fine motor skills, thinking, mathematics the list goes on.The question is how do you create one? What do you include in it and how do you share it? Here are a number of tips and tricks to help. If you want more details and support then my story basket mini-course may be for you!!Creating one starts with noticing an interest in a book or a general interest and sometimes a resource that sparks your or a…

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Space themed writing and grammar activity for early elementary and Key Stage 1. Construct sentences using the Silly Sentence prompts and write a story.