Story Elements Task Cards for ELA Classrooms

Since I started introducing story elements to my elementary writing classroom, I thought of creating Task Cards to give more practice and to help them review story elements in a fun way. 

After doing some discussion and modeling story elements with the help of a story and graphic organizer, I let them work in group of three's to shuffle the pile of Task Cards and pick one card taking turns. The random selection of cards give them an opportunity to improve their thinking skills as they must think of an event before dealing with the character or setting card. 

Then, they work independently to apply their understanding.This activity works well with Grade 3 students. 

However, for second graders, I let them first categorize the story element cards for Beginning, Middle and Ending parts of the story. After that, they plan their story with the help of these cards in a guided manner. It is good for interactive notebooks as they write the names of their characters and stick the top part of the card above it creating Flip and See interactives for all the section of their story. 

For first graders, I use it along with reading a book and identifying the various story elements as we read together often letting them do the guessing. Click to Preview Story Elements Task Cards on TeachersPayTeachers