Story element activities

These free story elements activities are a ton of fun for students and teachers. Kids in kindergarten and first grade will love reading the story of The Princess and the Frog while learning about story elements. The activities are great for small groups, whole group lessons as well as homework. Grab them for free!

Find out about an engaging story elements game that easily works with any fiction text that your students will beg you to play!

Learning about story elements can help students improve their comprehension skills. In this post, I'm sharing tips for teaching story elements in kindergarten. Your students will love these fun activities to help them learn more about character, setting, and plot. Click here to take a closer look at these story element activities for kindergarten.

Find reading strategies for teaching story elements. Includes a freebie to help apply the strategies. These are helpful for improving reading comprehension.

Engage your kindergarten students in core retell practice with fun activities, crafts and this FREE retelling sign.

We've gathered up all of the FREE reading comprehension response sheets we've created and put them HERE! They can be paired with any book and are useful all year long! Grab these sheets for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade classroom today!

Story Elements and Retell Story elements are the five components that make up a story. They are the characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution.

These second grade reading comprehension activities motivate young readers as they transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn."

Check out this comprehensive list of the best books for teaching story elements! These picture books are a great way to introduce story elements in kindergarten and first grade. Each of these stories makes a good mentor text to follow up with activities, worksheets, graphic organizers, or small group lessons. Get ideas to teach reading skills during language arts by using reading workshop and guided reading to encourage kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade literacy. Read more here!