Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips

Grade Levels

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Course, Subject

Related Academic Standards

CC.1.2.3.H CC.1.2.3.H

Describe how an author connects sentences and paragraphs in a text to support particular points.

CC.1.2.4.A CC.1.2.4.A

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

CC.1.2.4.J CC.1.2.4.J

Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being and that are basic to a particular topic.

CC.1.3.3.A CC.1.3.3.A

Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.

CC.1.3.3.C CC.1.3.3.C

Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

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Big Ideas

Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
Concepts

Essential content of text, including literary elements and devices, inform meaning

Textual features and organization inform meaning

Textual features inform meaning
Competencies

Identify and analyze the characteristics of various genre (e.g. poetry, drama, fiction)

Recognize and identify the characteristics of various genre (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama)

Summarize key information and the implied or stated main idea of texts

Summarize key information from a text (e.g. major points, processes and/or events)

Description

Knowing the elements of a story aids students in their understanding of what is taking place in the book or novel. When students comprehend the story elements of characters, setting, problems, events, and solutions, they become more involved in the story and take a greater interest in details. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read either read as a class or independently. The story strips that result provide a great way to evaluate student's understanding of important events and elements in a novel. The students enjoy the artistic aspect as well!

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Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips