Lesson Plan
Picture Puzzlers
Make your students into storytellers with this lesson where they will learn how to make complete stories of their own.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to order plot events and create an original short story with a clear beginning, middle and end.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Gather students together and ask them to think about the steps they take in the morning from when they get out of bed to the minute they walk through the classroom door.
- Write “Getting Ready for School Story Sequence" on the board. Underneath, create a 3-column chart and title the first column "BEGINNING", the second "MIDDLE", and the third "END." Tell students that events in the beginning, middle and end of a story are considered a story's sequence, or plot order.
- Ask for volunteers to give responses to the morning story sequence.
- Write student responses under the appropriate headings on the board. If few responses are listed, add some of your own morning prep details.
- Tell students that what is recorded on the board are the events of a story. Explain that these steps are a story sequence, and that the sequence always goes beginning, middle, end.