Fiction Graphic Organizers for Story Elements, Characters and Sequencing

Description

Help students comprehend fiction. This pack includes graphic organizers for story elements, beginning-middle-end, characters, setting, and sequencing events.

This fourteen-page fiction pack contains graphic organizers and formats to help comprehend fiction by analyzing characters and setting, sequencing events, summarizing elements of plot, and reflecting. Story maps included!

14 organizers included…

• Main Character Traits Organizer: Identify the traits, actions, feelings, and motivations of the main character and support them with evidence from the text
• Main Character Circle Organizer: Use text evidence to think about what the main character wants, feels, wishes, and doesn’t like.
• Character Relationships Organizer: Identify other characters the main character interacts with and describe their relationship, using text evidence.
• Character Change Organizer: Describe the character at the beginning, identify a major event that causes the character to change, and describe the character at the end.
• Character Poem Template: Write an “I Am” poem from the main character’s perspective
• Characteristics of Setting Organizer: Identify the setting using evidence about four characteristics: place, time, tone, and culture
• Theme with Text Evidence Organizer: Use evidence from the text to identify the theme
• Fiction Story Elements Map: Identify the story elements of your fiction story (main character, supporting characters, setting, problem, resolution, theme)
• Fiction Story Map (Freytag’s Pyramid): Record important events and details from the story and identify what role they play in telling a story
• Sequence of Events (First, Next, Finally): Simple organizer to record three main events: beginning, middle, and end
• Sequencing Sketches Organizer: Sketch and write about six main events in the story
• Sequence of Story Elements Map: Slightly more challenging recording sheet to identify the story elements and record them in sequence (Main Character, Supporting Characters, Setting, Problem & Solution)