Teaching plot 2nd grade

Teaching plot with picture books. A shared reading lesson that includes a free printable story map.

Plot is not my favorite thing to teach, or it hasn’t been in the past. However, that changed this week. I think I never liked teaching it because I felt I didn’t have a solid, engaging way of teaching the concept. Now, I have a great way of teaching it! The kids loved it, I […]

These 9 fun and engaging ideas for teaching plot structure helped my 3rd graders understand how the story elements and events influence each other and the plot. Numbers 4 & 5 made the biggest difference! Be sure to grab the 2 FREEBIES!

Plot can get boring after teaching it multiple times throughout the year. I saw on a teacher blog that a teacher drew a rollercoaster onto chart paper to represent the Beginning, Middle, and End of a story! We used sentence strips and card stock to make our carts. They wrote the beginning, middle, and end on lined paper and put it underneath their rollercoasters. Next year, I am going to have them add wheels to their carts and maybe have a person hanging out of one. :)

I recently discovered this awesome book for teaching plot. It is so cute. The class loved this book! This book is also a great resource to use for teaching writing. I used this anchor chart about plot that I found on Pinterest: I always make a small version of our anchor charts for the students to add to their reader's notebooks. Sometimes I run out of wall space for all of our anchor charts, so it's nice to have it to refer to in the reader's notebook. Here's my mini anchor chart: Plot

I love using picture books to teach plot. Here are four of my favorites that I use when it comes to teaching about plot.

This post shares 14 plot structure mentor texts with brief information and suggestions for each picture book. There are titles for plot mentor texts to help you teach about external conficts, internal conflicts, character interactions, how the setting affects the plot, and somebody wanted but so then.

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Teaching line plots can be tricky! Here are some activity ideas for teaching line plots and bring them to life for your third grade students. #math #3rdgrade

The Plot Chickens is about Henrietta, a writing chicken who uses the book Writing Rules to explain story elements and her story writing process with her chicken aunts and...