Teaching plot

6 easy ways to help your students understand plot structure CCR blog post-min

Teaching plot to students can be engaging and rigorous with these activities which are great for grades 2-4!

I love teaching the Elements of Literature! I think it's vital to students understanding what it takes to make a good story (long or short) so they are able to add it to their own stories. Today we expanded from Monday's foldable for PLOT. See the EofLit foldable. We created a page for the basic steps of PLOT: PLOT: sequence of events, cause/effect, conflict, relationships. *the storyline* EXPOSITION: meet the characters; learn about the setting (time & place; where/when); conflict/problem…

Help your 3rd graders' see how the story elements influence each other.

Download my FREE Reference Guide here! Happy Monday, Friends! I'm back with another list of my favorite picture books to teach certain skills and this time we are focusing on PLOT. Be sure and check out my post about picture books to teach THEME and download the free reference guide for that skill here. Now,

Teaching the elements of fiction doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming. See how I break it down and teach through stations!

The Present- For Teaching Plot Twist and Theme This story has the most amazing plot twist! Get your tissues ready! A young boy is behaving like an awful brat. He disrespects his mother when she brings him a new puppy. He even treats the puppy terribly when he discovers it is missing a leg. But […]

Teaching plot with picture books. Picture books are the perfect medium when explicitly teaching the elements of plot to older student.

When you want students to understand what reading looks like.

“The best way to ensure that anchor charts don’t become wallpaper is to make them interactive,” says Chrissy Beltran Buzzing with Ms B. See her ideas here.