6(A) Elements of a Story (Readiness)

Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Thmes and Genre. Students  analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to.
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6(A) identify elements of a story including setting, character and key events
Identify elements of a story including setting Identify elements of a story including character Identify elements of a story including key events

Activities:

After the teacher reads during Shared Reading/RATT the students identify elements of a story by using the retelling cube (any other cube with character, setting, problem, solution) the students sit in a circle and pass it around (like hot potato).  When the music stops the student holding the cube answers one of the questions.

First it can be orally, then the teacher can write the answers, and finally the students can do it on their own (drawing/writing)