These story structure task cards are focused on the elements of fiction: characters, setting, and plot. Students will identify the parts of a story in a multiple-choice format. They are perfect when you want to have interventions for students learning to summarize, cite text evidence, or simply when learning story structure.

Grade Levels: 2, 3

Skills and Standards Alignment

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Texts are from Summarizing Task Cards #2 - Realistic Fiction.

Genres: Literary Texts; Realistic Fiction

ATOS Level 3.9

Estimated Lexile: 540L

12 multiple choice Task Cards

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Story Structure Standards Alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.5Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

2019 TEKS 2.8 (B) describe the main character's (characters') internal and external traits;

(C) describe and understand plot elements, including the main events, the conflict, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently; and

(D) describe the importance of the setting.

2019 TEKS 3.8 (B) explain the relationships among the major and minor characters;

(C) analyze plot elements, including the sequence of events, the conflict, and the resolution; and

(D) explain the influence of the setting on the plot.

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Other Reading Resources:

Summarizing Task Cards #1 - Realistic Fiction and Fantasy

Summarizing Task Cards #2 - Realistic Fiction

Summarizing Task Cards #3 - Realistic Fiction and Fantasy

Summarizing Task Cards #4 - Informational

Summarizing Task Cards #5 - Informational

Summarizing Task Cards #6 - Informational

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Sequencing Task Cards - Ellen Ochoa

Sequencing Task Cards #2 - Helen Keller

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STAAR Daily Warm Ups:

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 3rd Grade #1

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 3rd Grade #2

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 3rd Grade #3

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 3rd Grade #4

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 4th Grade #1

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 4th Grade #2

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 5th-6th Grade #1

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 5th-6th Grade #2

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 6th Grade #3

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 8th Grade #1

More STAAR Reading Task Cards:

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #1 STAAR Prep

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #2 Harriet Tubman

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #3 Informational Texts

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #4 Properties of Matter

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #5 Matter

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #6 Energy

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #7 Rosa Parks

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #8 Martin Luther King Jr.

Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #9 Jackie Robison

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Making Inferences Task Cards 1 (STAAR)

Making Inferences Task Cards 2 (STAAR)

Making Inferences Task Cards 3 (STAAR)

Making Inferences Task Cards 4 (STAAR)

Making Inferences Task Cards 5 (Character Analysis)

Making Inferences Task Cards 6 (STAAR Informational)

Making Inferences Task Cards 7 (Character Analysis)

Making Inferences Task Cards 8 (STAAR Literary Nonfiction)

Making Inferences Task Cards 9 (Figurative Language)

Making Inferences MEGA BUNDLE

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