These anchor charts will take the guesswork out of your teaching and serve as the backbone to your unit on the elements of fiction. Having a ready-to-print anchor chart that explains and defines key elements of fiction terms to help us our students can be a huge lifesaver. There is a lot of information that even teachers need to research and study before teaching a lesson. There are so many vocabulary terms and details associated with understanding fiction texts from knowing the difference between a protagonist and antagonist to understanding the four types of conflict to knowing how to communicate tone and mood. With the help of these posters, your students will remember and understand the key elements of fiction.Īnd let’s be honest…sometimes teaching reading in upper elementary can be challenging even for teachers. These posters provide a student-firiendly definition and explanation of a key element of fiction. This set of anchor charts will be your teacher bestie when it comes to teaching elements of fiction. These elements of fiction anchor charts and posters will help your students remember all the key story elements and as an added bonus these posters are a great addition to an interactive reading notebook. If you really want to help your students understand fiction texts, then you need to dig deep into the elements of fiction. If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade more than likely you have to teach your students to understand elements of fiction that go beyond just identifying the characters, setting, and plot of a story. This project also lends itself well to identifying the story elements within the writing that the kids will do.This resource is included in the Stellar Literacy Collective. I’ll post pictures of ours soon, but I know a lot of teachers teach this as one of their first books, so I wanted to offer it up now if it might help others! Wonder is a fantastic book to use to story map the story elements since there is a pretty clear overarching problem and solution as well as several main events. I fell in love with this book, and I absolutely can’t WAIT to have my students read it and complete this yearbook project! I’d love to hear feedback about it and see final pictures. □ You can purchase the Story Elements Reading Response Task Cards HERE !īook Project: Here’s a FREE book project for Wonder by R.J. This is a GREAT time to get huge stacks of picture books and have students start reading and writing about what they are reading! I highly recommend it, and these task cards provide excellent summative assessments, too. Each card focuses on different story elements and asks students to think critically about it and how it relates to their book. Reading Response Task Cards: The last activity we do is the culmination of all of our learning and helps the students apply what they have learned to actual literature! This is my favorite way to encourage thinking about texts, and it requires students to really think critically about story elements, much like the task cards above do, BUT they use their own books! Most years, I make the kids their own individual reading response task cards (You can read more about that HERE) so that they have a set with them all the time, but you can use these cards in a variety of ways.
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