Sequence of Events in a Story About Building a Birdhouse

After reading, ask your child to retell the story in their own words before filling in the boxes. If the events are hard to order, have your child find each one in the story and write its paragraph number next to it first.

Read about Owen and Grandpa building a birdhouse, chart the beginning, middle and end and number events. The sequence is the order of events. The beginning sets up a story, the middle goes on and the end wraps it up. The directions on the page read: Read the story. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Fill in chart rows 1 to 3. Then, number the 5 events in question 4. Then, circle the best answer to question 5 and answer question 6 on the 3 lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade story elements, 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 maps. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A story map lays out the main parts of a story: the characters, the setting, the problem and the solution. Filling one in shows how the solution fixes what went wrong.

Putting four or five events in order shows how each part of the story leads to the next (RL.3.5). The events on each sheet are mixed up, so your child has to find each one in the story first.

Each sheet has a one page original story of about 200 words about an everyday problem: a lost tooth thrown away at lunch, a snowman knocked over by the wind, a birdhouse built with Grandpa and a yard sale for an animal shelter.

Yes. All eight story map sheets have an answer key, with the event numbers, the multiple choice answer and sample answers for each box and the written question.

Third graders describe characters, including their traits, wants and feelings, and explain how their actions move the story along (CCSS RL.3.3). They also name the characters, setting, problem and solution and put the main events in order. This topic has character analysis sheets for the first part and story map sheets for the second.

Ask what the character did or said, then ask what kind of person would do that. Many charts give the quote and its paragraph number, so your child can focus on choosing a trait word like careful, patient or kind. For the last question, have your child point to two sentences in the story before writing.

A story map has four boxes for the characters, setting, problem and solution. A beginning, middle and end chart asks what happens in each part of the story. Both kinds of sheets then have children number four or five events in story order.

Yes. All 24 sheets have an answer key, with a sample answer for each box and for the written question. The key also lists other answers to accept, since more than one trait word or detail can fit.