3 - Story Elements

1. Story Elements
Third Grade Reading Elements of Story
Correlated to: CCSS
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2. Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis
for the answers.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions
contribute to the sequence of events
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end
of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Read grade-
level text with purpose and understanding.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.C: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Use context
to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information
presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.A: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3
reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5B: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances
in word meanings. Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and
domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships

3. What are story elements?
 A good story contains several key
ingredients…
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Problem/Conflict
4. Theme
5. Setting
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4. Plot
 Plot is the main events of the story or
passage.
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5. Characters
 Characters are the people, animals,
or things the story is about.
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6. Problems/Conflict
 Problems are things that happen to
the main character that changes the
story.
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7. Setting
 The setting is where and when the
story takes place.
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8. CHARACTER
 What the character looks like
 How the character acts
 How the character changes
SETTING (Using Your Senses to Determine Setting)
 When
 Where
PROBLEM
 What is the characters problem?
Event 1 Event 2 Event 3
Lesson
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9. Using Your Senses to Determine Setting
Sense Evidence from the Text
Sight What do I see
Hearing What do I hear
Smell What do I smell
Taste What do I taste
Touch What can I touch
Other Information  Scrunched together under an umbrella
 Last week she could go out without a coat, but
now it is too cold.
 It wouldn’t be too long before it was too cold to
play in the park.
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10. Guided Practice using Story Maps
• Pass Out “Elements
From Story 3 &
Elements From Story
8
• Watch “Clifford the
FireHouse Dog”
and fill in while you
watch
• URL:
http://www.justbooksreadaloud.com/Re
adToMe.php?vid=CliffordFirehouseDog&
iP=IndexCategory.php&t=Short&p1=&p
2=
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11. Independent Practice using Story
Maps
• Pass Out “Using
Your Senses to
Determine Setting
URL” Template
• Watch “Cinderella”
and fill in while you
watch
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12.  Cinderella Story URL
 URL: http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/cinderella.html
 Flocabulary: Five Elements URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6I24S72Jps
Instructional Video(s)
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