Story elements

Story elements

Purpose

• I can explain how parts of a text are organized to connect events and ideas.

• I can use parts of a text to locate specific information when writing or speaking about a text.

  Vocabulary

Parts of the Story

Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an ending

*The beginning of a story tells you who the story is mostly about, and where the story mostly takes place.

--->The characters are who the story is mostly about.

--->The setting is where the story mostly takes place. 

The middle of a story tells you the things that happen in the story.

• The events are the things that happen in the story.

• The plot is all of the events in the story. The plot usually includes some kind of problem.

The ending of a story tells how the problem is solved

• The problem solution is how the problem is solved

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The Golden Fish Keeps a Promise

By L. M. Gask

Upon a certain island in the middle of the sea lived a fisherman and his wife. They were so poor they often went without bread when the fishing did not go well. 

One day when the man had been fishing for many hours without any luck, he hooked a small golden fish with eyes as bright as diamonds.

“Let me go, kind fisherman,” the little creature cried. “I would not even make a single mouthful for your dinner.” 

The man was so moved by the beauty of the golden fish that he let him go. Before he swam away, the fish promised that he would come back if the fisherman ever needed help.

The fisherman laughed, for he could not think how a little fish could help him, other than providing a bit of food. He went home and told his wife about his adventure. 

“What!” she cried. “You let him go? We have not a scrap of food in the house, and I suppose that now we must starve.”