Identifying Story Elements

Note the important details below:

Who are the important characters in the story?

• the ant and the lion

• the grasshopper and the butterfly

• the elephant and the ant

• the ant and the grasshopper

Where did the story happened?

• at the beach

• at the park

• on the forest floor

• inside the house

What is the problem in the story?

• Tthe ant is storing up food for the summer.

• The grasshopper that has spent the summer singing while the ant worked to store up food for winter. When that season arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger and begs the ant for food.

• The ant keeps on playing during summer time while the grasshopper is storing up food for winter season.

• The ant and the grasshopper had a fight.

What was the ending of the story?

• The next summer , the grasshopper worked hard to store food for the upcoming winter . That next winter , grasshopper was well fed and happy! He had learned to think ahead and plan for the future.

• The ant had learned his lesson.

• The ant and the grasshopper both died from hunger.

• The next summer, the grasshopper worked hard to store food for the winter while the ant died from hunger.

What is the moral lesson of the story?

• The situation sums up moral lesson about giving is better than receiving.

• The situation sums up moral lesson about health and wellness.

• The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

• The situation shows us that honesty is the best policy.

Identify elements of a story:

One bright day,in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

What element of a story does the underlined words belong to?

• plot

• setting

• characters

• problem

On a beautiful summer day,on the forest floor, a grasshopper sat and sang a sweet song. The grasshopper saw an ant working hard carrying grain to his house.

What element of a story does the underlined phrase belong to?

• setting

• characters

• plot

• problem

The grasshopper that has spent the summer singing while the ant worked to store up food for winter. When that season arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger and begs the ant for food.

What element of a story is being described in the sentence above?

• setting

• characters

• problem

• solution

The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation taught us about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

What element of a story is being described in the sentence above?

• problem

• moral lesson

• character

• setting

The winter comes and the grasshopper after having played around all summer has no food. The grasshopper begs the ant for food to which the ant declines.

What element of a story is being described in the sentence above?

• setting

• plot

• character

• ending