What do we know about stories? We know that a story has a character, a setting and a problem and a solution

Character:

• Characters can be people, animals or creatures
• Characters think, feel and act.
• Characters usually change in a story

Setting:

• The setting answers the the questions where and when.
• The time of a story may be the future or the past,  the daytime or night, the summer or winter.
• The place of a story could be a school or a jungle, a city or a desert.
• We can use describing words to tell about the setting like sunny, cold, busy or spooky.

Problem and Solution

Problem: What goes wrong in the story.  The problem usually happens near the beginning of the story.

Solution: How the problem is fixed or solved.

Let’s talk a little more about story structure or how to retell the events of a story in the order that they happened.

Let’s retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Ask your grown-up to ask you the questions.  Remember to answer your grown-up in complete sentences.

Who were the characters?  The characters in the story are Goldilocks and the Three Bears

What was the setting?  The setting was a house in the woods.

What did the Three Bears Do?  The Bears went for a walk while their porridge cooled.

What did Goldilocks do in the house? Goldilocks ate the bear’s porridge, sat in their chairs and fell asleep in their beds.

What happened at the end?  The Bears came home and found Goldilocks asleep.  They scared her and she ran away.

Let’s listen to the Bad Seed again.

Can you retell the story of the Bad Seed?  Complete the activities in the protected blog post.

Please visit Ms. Field for a read aloud in the library.  She reads a new story every Wednesday.

https://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/parkcrest-library/