Lesson: Test Prep: Story Elements

Objective:  Students will be able to find story elements using a test prep passage. 

Direct Instruction:  Raise your hand if you are really excited when “teacher” takes out a book and asks you to read it?  Well just like we hear great stories in books, we can also hear or read great stories when we take a test.  The stories in a test are also stories just like from a book. 

Guided Practice:  Have students close their eyes and listen to you tell a story.  See if they can tell that you are telling a story from a test prep passage instead of a book. Ask them if there were any differences.  Use a chart as the one modeled in the resource to have students identify the different literary elements even though they are finding them in a story. 

Independent Practice:  Students go through different test prep passages and find story elements.