Teaching Story Elements with Favorite Books - Creative and Engaging Activities to Explore Character, Plot, Setting, and Theme-That Work with Any Book! (Paperback)

Inspire a love of literature in young learners while teaching them to identify and explore the story elements essential to every good book. Includes reading discussion ideas, reproducible graphic organizers and hands-on cross-curricular activities geared toward diverse learning styles. Children decorate and fill a treasure box that reflects the character of Miss Rumphius, paint a picture timeline to investigate plot in Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, create "fantasy world" trading cards to explore setting in The Polar Express, and much more! For use with Grades 1-3.