Plan a Story About a Cloud Who Wants to Rain Lemonade

Read the topic and let your child talk through the story before filling in the planner. Then have them write the story from the plan, using each box in order, and read it aloud to check that it makes sense.

Read a made-up plan about a prickly hedgehog, then draw your character and write a story about a cloud that rains lemonade. A character is who the story is about. The setting is where and when it happens. The problem is what goes wrong. The directions on the page read: Read the Model and the topic. Then, write 3 lines in each box, and draw your character. Then, write your story on the next page. On page 2: Write a title. Then, write your story from your plan, from the beginning to the ending. Then, check each line of the checklist that your story has.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade writing prompts, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with story writing. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

W.2.3 asks for a short sequence of events with details about actions, thoughts and feelings, time words and an ending. The planners cover a character, a setting, a problem and how it gets fixed.

It is a five box story plan. Somebody is the character, Wanted is what they want, But is the problem, So is what the character does and Then is the ending. Plan a Story About a Shy Giant shows a model about a crab who needs a bigger shell.

Have your child say what each character would say out loud, then write those words inside quotation marks. If Animals Could Talk has speech bubbles, and Plan a Story About a Moose Who Wants to Ice Skate has a line for one thing a character says.

No. Each child invents their own story. Check that it follows the plan and has a character, a problem and an ending.