Title – A Story Map

By – Shannon

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Grade Level – Grade 2-3

Aim/Objective: students will be able to identify and map the elements of a story.

NYS Standards:

Standard 1: students will listen to a read aloud and interpret information within the story.

Standard 2: students will understand the elements of a story.

Standard 3: students will write about a story that they independently read.

Standard 4: students will respond to the questions from the teacher and discuss ideas with each other.

Grouping: The whole class. Groups of two for knee to knee, eye to eye discussions.

Prior Knowledge/Motivation: Discuss using background knowledge and refer to the classroom walls where the elements of a story are displayed. Discuss how we are going to bring the elements of a story together and map it out. Scaffold the students’ knowledge and connect various lessons.

Materials: The book

The Art Lesson

, all the lists which display the elements of a story, large chart paper, story map worksheet/handout.

Procedure: Open the lesson with a brief discussion about the parts of a story (beginning, middle, end, and the setting), about character traits, and how sometimes there are problems in a story. Talk about how they have been doing a great job determining the parts of a story and that helps us become better readers, writers, and helps us understand the story. Introduce how we are going to bring all these elements together in our story map. Explain that an important event can also be a problem of a story.

Practice: The students will practice their new learning by helping fill in the story map on chart paper. If the students appear to be struggling with thinking of problems, important events, or the solution, reread certain pages that could assist them.

Performance based Assessment of student learning: Have students work on the story map handout. They will choose a book from one of their books in a bag that they have completed and fill in the map on the story’s characters, setting, problem, important events, and solution.

Self-Assessment: Reflect on how much probing and rereading had to be done to aid the students in identifying parts of the story. Check worksheets to see if they understood the elements of a story.

Follow-up: The next day bring back the story map from

The Art Lesson

. Model how to use the information we filled in and write a summary of a story. Write the summary on big paper with the help of the students and self-correct by referring back to the story map to ensure we included all are information.

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