12 January 2014

Story Map Freebie!


We are starting our unit on Bears!  Last week we read many versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Part of our work on the story included this story map.  It is made for kindergarten students, but would be appropriate for first grade too.  They drew pictures to show their ideas and then I labeled the drawing or wrote the dictation about what what happening in each part of the story.


First, the kiddos worked on the setting and characters.  I love this colorful busy picture that includes all sorts of details.  She put the beds outside the house because she wanted to include some of the items from inside the house in the picture.


This little boy drew just the house, but added the different sized bowls and had me label them.


This was a great characters picture.  So darn cute!

 

Then on another day, students did pictures for the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  First, we did an activity together where we ordered picture cards and talked about different parts of the story.  It was great to hear the kids verbally retelling the story in their own words.  That is one of the things that is great about doing an activity like this - a great way to really listen carefully to the oral language of students.  



I love the picture of Goldilocks in this one.  Her hair is great!




I was so excited when this little sweetie used the word "discovered" in her dictation to me.  Woo hoo!  Great language!



I thought my sweet little students did a great job with this activity!  And I was happy with how much they were enjoying the many versions of the 3 bears stories.  And, now that they have done a complete story map with a very familiar story, I can start doing these with more challenging literature.

OK, here is your freebie, just click on the link under this image to go grab it in my TpT store:



I hope it is a big help in your classroom!
Please leave some love in the comments if you are using it with your class.  
Happy Teaching!




26 comments:

  1. Going to use this tomorrow with my first graders to do some story writing. Thanks!!

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  2. Thanks for the map...We will be using it very soon....if we ever go back to school because of too much snow and cold temps.

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  3. Thanks so much! Fits exactly what I was looking for!

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  4. Thanks for the story map! Can't wait to use it with my kiddos!

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  5. I love this! Thanks so much for sharing.

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  6. Love this! All I did was add lines for my students! Thanks!

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  7. Thank you so much for the story map. This is exactly what I was looking for. You are a star!

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  8. Looking forward in using the story map! Thanks!!

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  9. Thanks for the Map it is just what I was looking for!

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  10. Thank you so much! This is a great story map. We will be working on retelling.

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  11. Thanks , I really appreciate this , very creative.

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  12. Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thanks :)

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  13. Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thanks :)

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  14. Thank you! I can't wait to try this one.

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  15. Thank you for the story map. I like how simple it is and can be used with any book.

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  16. Thank you so much Katie! This was PERFECT for my soon-to-be first graders.

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    1. You are so welcome! I am glad to hear that it helped your sweeties!

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  17. Going to start using this with my KG in Mumbai! Thank you for the resource.

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  18. Thank you going to use this in our homeschool!

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  19. Great resource! I'm using it to introduce retell to kindergarteners!

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  20. Great! Used the format with my 2nd graders.Thanks.

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  21. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!! This will help my littles/kindergarterns learn literacy elements.

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  22. This is a great resource - thanks! I am going to use it with a class I teach on Outschool.

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  23. Great, simple and very useful. Thank you!

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