Setting is an important story element! In this video, you'll learn the definition of setting and how to determine the setting in a story.

Learn to create a story elements graphic organizer to find the characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and theme to a fiction story.

Mr. Griot demonstrates how to use story text as clues for making predictions and identifying main idea, supporting details, and story elements.

Characters are an important story element! In this video, you'll learn the definition of character. We'll play "Character or Not?" to see what you've learned.

This video teaches how to retell a story. It shares how to first tell the setting/characters, then the problem, and finally the solution. It teaches how using three finger retell (beginning, middle, and end) helps keep us on track....

This video teaches what the setting is and how to identify it from simple text to more complex text. It teaches how the authors sometimes tells us the setting and sometimes they show it, where we have to infer and use clues to figure out...

This video teaches what a character is and how to identify outside and inside character traits. It teaches how the author shows who the character is based on what the character DOES and SAYS. Knowing the characters helps us understand...

This video focuses on the two main genre of books: fiction and nonfiction. Kids learn aspects of each type of book and then practice naming whether a book is fiction or nonfiction. Kids also learn about realistic fiction.

New ReviewThis video give instruction and practice with finding the problem and solution with simple and more complex texts.

An Introduction to narratives. Part 1 in our series 'Planning & Writing a Narrative'. This video explains the basic structure of narratives and identifies the story elements.

In this video, I teach you the elements of a story. I will cover characters, setting, plot and theme. You will understand the who of the story-the characters, the where and when of the story-the setting, the different plots of the plot,...

You can de-emphasize a story without completely removing a narrative from a game. From the Super Mario games to Portal, there are many opportunities for narrative elements to enhance the gameplay and give the player a reason to, well,...

Reading books can be fun, but there’s so much more to discover beneath the surface. In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll use our background knowledge and story evidence to make inferences about E.B. White’s novel,...

How To Use Instagram Highlights and Stories // Show your clients and your audience your human side with Instagram Stories. Instagram stories are quick 15 seconds clips that can roll over into mini videos. They can be tagged with location...

“I Recall: Part 2” reviews characters, setting, and events and asks questions about these story elements after reading the story “The Clubhouse.”

“I Recall: Part 1” discusses characters, setting, and events and applies these story elements to answering questions about the fiction story “Learning to Fly.”

During this video we will learn how to animate a google slide presentation. We will make connections to the Grade 8 Math Standards for Transformations. This is fondly called the Animation Transformation Project where my students...

Learn the difference between fiction and nonfiction stories with Park Ranger Taylor. Watch out for the bears!

The elements of a story that include the central idea and supporting details of a text.

This video breaks down the concept of plot, an essential component of storytelling, using the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an illustrative example. It explains how plot structures a narrative and makes it compelling,...

Mr. Griot explains how to write a short story and include all of the narrative elements, like setting, character, plot, conflict, climax, and resolution.

Mr. Griot reviews the character, setting and mood and also explains the importance of sequence of events.

This is a video entitled “Theme Collage” which models how to determine the theme of a complete literary text.

In this video, you will learn how to retell a fiction story by describing the characters, setting, and major events from beginning to end!