Story Elements Graphic Organizer
- 27 pages
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd
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About this resource
A child can tell you who is in the story. Ask where it happens, what goes wrong and how it gets fixed, and the answers get harder to find. This is a set of story elements graphic organizers for 1st through 3rd grade: six blank organizers you can use with any book, and four short original stories with questions a child can answer from the text.
EVERYTHING INSIDE (27 pages)
- 15 student pages: 1 word page, 6 blank organizers, and 4 stories with 2 pages each
- Story Elements Words: 8 big words (character, setting, problem, solution, plot, beginning, middle, end), each with a short kid-sized meaning
- 6 blank organizers for any book: Character, Setting, Problem and Solution, Beginning Middle End, Story Map, Story Elements Chart
- 4 original stories of 6 short sentences each: Pip and the Red Ball, Maya's Lemonade Stand, Leo and the Kite, Nora and the Rain
- Read and Circle: 4 pages with 4 questions each (character, setting, problem, solution) and 3 choices per question, 16 circle items in all
- Put It in Order: 4 pages, 3 events to number 1, 2, 3 on each (12 events), then a retell on lines
- 1 teacher key for every circle item and every order card
- 1 story log (10 rows), 1 class grid (15 students), 1 filled example (an invented student)
- 1 family note with three ways to help at home, 1 phrase bank of 15 observable-language starters
- 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
- Start Here and terms of use
Built For The Child Holding The Page
A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a small icon, large rounded type, boxes to draw in and lines with real spacing. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult, there is no score, and no student page needs scissors or glue. Every answer in the four stories is stated in the story, and the wrong choices are things the story does not say.
Type In, Or Print
The name and date lines, every ruled line, the number boxes on the ordering pages, the log, class grid and family note are type-in fields in any PDF reader. Circle choices and picture boxes are for pencil. Every page prints clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.
Who This Is For
1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, reading groups, centers and tutors who want a story elements graphic organizer a child can start on their own. Your team decides what counts as meeting a skill.
What This Is, And What It Is Not
Story element organizers and short stories with the record-keeping around them. There is no scoring rubric, and it is not a timed test, a screener or a clinical tool. It makes no claim about any student's age or rate of progress, and there is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.
