1. Reading Street Unit 1 Week 4 Created by Kristi Waltke
Story Structure
Reading Street
Unit 1 Week 4
Created by Kristi Waltke

2. Let’s Review

3. Good readers summarize
Good readers summarize. As they read, they pause to sum up the important ideas or events.
This helps them remember the information.
As you read a story, note the main events.
After you read, ask yourself what the main events were and in what order they occurred.

4. Author’s Purpose
The author’s purpose is the reason or reasons the author has for writing.
An author may write to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas and feelings.
An author may have more than one purpose
within a story. You will often be
asked question about why an author includes
what he or she does in a story.

5. Sequence First Event Second Event Third Event Fourth Event
 Sequence means the order in which     things happen.
Dates, times, and clue words such as first, then, next, and last can help you understand the order of events.
Sometimes two or more events happen at     the same time. Words such as meanwhile and during can show this.
First
Event
Second
Event
Third
Event
Fourth
Event

6. Story Structure in Fiction
Then the conflict or problem is
confronted. This is the climax
of a story.
Story structure is like a pattern
that stories follow.
In the beginning, you have a
problem or goal established.
Finally you have an outcome
and the problem is resolved.
Next, there is rising action that
builds toward the climax.

7. Story Structure in Horned Toad Prince
In the beginning, you have a
problem or goal established.
What is Reba Jo’s problem?
She made a deal with
a frog that she
doesn’t want to
keep.

8. Story Structure in Horned Toad Prince
Next, there is rising action that
builds toward the climax. What is
The rising action in this story?
Reba Jo tries to avoid
the toad by galloping
away and slamming
the door on the toad.

9. Story Structure in Horned Toad Prince
Then the conflict or problem is
confronted. This is the climax
of a story. What is the climax
of this story?
Reba Jo begins to fulfill her
end of their bargain. She
kisses the toad as part of a
new bargain to get him to
leave pronto.

10. Story Structure in Horned Toad Prince
Finally you have an outcome
and the problem is resolved.
What was the outcome in this story?
The toad turns into a hand-
some young caballero! He
leaves Reba Jo forever
because of the final deal
she made when he was a toad.

11. Remember that good readers use Story Structure to predict and understand a story.