listening comprehension topic: identifying basic story elements what makes a story a story?
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Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
What makes a storya story?
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
It’s what happens in a story. It’s a sequence of events.
A plot can be summarized in very
few sentences—sometimes just one
sentence!
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
In TV listings, plots are usually summarized in just one sentence.
A test shows that Spud is a genius.American Dragon: Jake Long
Raven and Chelsea go on a TV show to compete for a date with a cute guy.That’s So Raven
The Tipton crew becomes a part of a ballroom dance team.The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
Miley and Lilly plot revenge against Amber and Ashley.Hannah Montana
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Characters are the people or animals who take part in a story.
Main Characters are the most important. Stories are about main characters.
Secondary Characters are less important. Stories are not about them, but without them stories would not be very interesting.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Time: NightPlace: A big city
Time: The 19th century Place: An island in the Caribbean
The setting is the time and place in which the action in a story occurs.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Time: The Future Place: The planet Saturn
Time: December 25, 1995Place: A farm in Horse Head, Virginia
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
The setting is usually described in the beginning of a story, but sometimes writers
don’t tell much about the setting. They make the reader guess.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
The problem is the situation or event that causes trouble and must be dealt with by the main
characters.
A story’s problem can be silly or serious, but there always has to be one!
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
The solution is how the problem is solved.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
The basic story elements of plot, character, setting, problem, and solution are present in every story.
A good way to remember them is to remember that there are five letters in the word "story" and five basic elements in a story. The characters (1) must be in a setting (2), and the plot (3) must include a problem (4), and a solution (5).
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Listen as Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One is read to you. As you listen,
1. make a “mind movie”
2. make a note of the story elements in the main story and in the story that the characters make up.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One: The Main Story
Characters: Setting:
Problem:
Solution:
Plot:
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One: The Story-within-the-Story
Characters: Setting:
Problem:
Solution:
Plot:
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Identifying Basic Story Elements
Look for the basic story elements in the book we are
reading!