![]() Identifying main story elements is a building block to be able to eventually retell and summarize fiction. Students must write the main idea of each paragraph in a short text they’ve read.Identifying and understanding plot structure is a key skill for elementary students to become good readers. For this just write paragraph numbers at the top of the chart and on the cards. You can also do this to practice Main Idea.Remind students that all the teams will have the same answers, so they’ll want to work quietly together as to not give any answers away to the other teams.It allows students to reach in without being able to see the card they are picking. I like to use a desktop trash can with a swing lid.Set up a system to make sure students on the team take turns picking a card.You may want to provide sentence stems for students to use when writing their answers.The game is over once one team has a sticky note in EACH column.At that point they can directly put it back on the board since the teacher has already checked to make sure it was correct. In order to put a correct sticky note back on the board, the team must pull that story element card out of the container again. ![]() If there aren’t any sticky notes to take down, they just put the card back into the container. But if they pull an “Oh Snap YOU” card they may take down another team’s sticky note.
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