Reading 3.3.3 Exploring Story Structure

Reading: Exploring Story Structure
Lesson 3.3.3

Learners can:

• explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of the text

Vocabulary: slogging, eke, outcropping, VHF radio

Curriculum Kit Materials: Disaster Strikes

​Words To Know

Today we will read Chapter 9.


As you read, look for details that will help you answer the following questions:

• Why is Noah worried about the boat?

• What do Noah, Emma, and Alex find when they reach the boat?

​After reading, we will discuss story structure.

​Disaster Strikes

Structure refers to how the events flow to create an engaging, interesting story that readers can understand.

​The text Disaster Strikes is a fiction story. When you think about the text structure of a fiction story, think about the phrase “Give me five!” There are five parts or elements of a fiction story.

They are:

• character;

• setting;

• problem;

• solution; and

• mood.

Each of these elements plays a role in how the story is told.

​Story Structure

​Different Kinds of Problems Found in Fiction Texts

Labeling

Use the details below to fill in the story structure chart. You will use each detail once.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

The kids are trapped in a cave.

Noah and Emma move to Alaska.

The volcano erupts.

​Chapters help organize the events and ideas in a story, introduces new information or a new event, help signal the passage of time, and often end with an event that builds excitement for the next chapter.

​Chapter Structures

Reorder

Sort the events from Chapter 9 into the correct order. Use your copy of Disaster Strikes to help.

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  Just then, Noah hears something. Alex must have outrun the edge of the mudslide.

• Noah and Alex wonder if the mudslide got the boat.

• Emma starts to cry when she thinks that the mudslide has damaged the boat. She is worried that her father is on the boat.

• The kids find the boat and go aboard. They discover that the boat is empty and that their fathers are nowhere to be found.

• 
  The kids wait on the boat all afternoon. They find some food and eat while they wait.

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Multiple Select

What are the two problems that are solved in Chapter 9 of Disaster Strikes?

• 
  The kids make contact with Mr. Kozloff on the VHF radio.

• 
  Emma makes up her mind about growing up and becoming a volcanologist.

• Noah and Emma find Alex after the mudslide.

• Alex and Emma manage to convince Noah to like living in Alaska.

-Get a snack/drink
-Get up/Stretch/Move Around
-Use the bathroom
-Get ready for Writing

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