Story Elements- Where the Wild Things Are

What are CHARACTERS?

• People or things in a story

• Where the story takes places

• Something that is going on in the story

What is SETTING?

• People or things in a story

• Where a story takes place

• Something that happens in the story

What is the PROBLEM?

• Where a story takes place

• An issue in the story

• People or things in the story

What are KEY DETAILS

• People and things in a story

• An issue in the story

• Events that take place in a story

What is SOLUTION?

• How a problem is solved

• People and things in a story

• An issue in the story

________ is the main character in the story "Where the Wild Things Are". (CHARACTER)

Where does "Where the Wild Things Are" take place? (SETTING)

• In Max's school.

• Where the wild things live

• At a playground

What does NOT happen in "Where the Wild Things Are?" (DETAILS)

• Max goes off on an adventure on a boat to where the wild things are.

• The wild things control Max and do not let him go home.

• Max misses home and decides to go back.

What is a problem in the story?

• Max gets mad and leaves his home/bedroom.

• Max looses something of his.

• Max's mother grounds him.

What is the solution in the story?

• Max never comes home.

• Max stays grounded forever.

• Max misses home, so he decides to go back.