1. Character/Setting/Plot Comprehension Materials for “How to Eat Fried Worms”
Common Core GPS
ELACC3RL1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
ELACC4RL1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
ELACC5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
ELACC6RL1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC7RL1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC8RL1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
To cite evidence of what the text says explicitly -- Use these pictures with the story “How to Eat Fried Worms”, either the adapted PowerPoint version or the original version of the story, for instruction and assessment of students’ abilities to:
- answer comprehension questions about the story
- retell the story
- provide character/setting/plot information
- sequence events in the story
Directions: Print each slide (on cardstock if possible for increased durability) then cut out each picture and laminate each.
-Add a small piece of rough Velcro® to the backs of each picture to use to complete the character/setting/plot graphic organizers or to use with felt/velcro boards.
-Use materials to assess students’ comprehension via types of activities
listed above
Materials created by Jessie Moreau, M.Ed., NBCT
Gwinnett County Public Schools

2. Character/Setting/Plot Template Directions.
Use this Character/Setting/Plot template to help work on comprehension skills of grade level literature and adapted stories with your students. You can use these pages for sorting, matching, and answering questions regarding the selected story.
Copy and paste the appropriate Characters, Setting, and Plot pictures/symbols from your adapted story CDs, the internet, or scanned pictures from the books themselves,
Print the Character/Setting/Plot pages and these picture/word cards on cardstock. Cut out the pictures then laminate, if possible. Use the soft side of sticky-back Velcro™ on the pages and rough Velcro™ on the backs of the pictures. (Aileen’s Tack It Over and Over™ can be utilized on the backs of laminated pictures as an alternate adhesive.)
Bind the pages with a plastic binder to hold the pages together.
*Teaching and assessment tips:
Use the cards and pages to teach the story’s Characters, Setting and Plot. Choose the black bordered symbols or the color-coded symbols based upon student needs.
You can then use the same activity to assess student comprehension of the story. Print out the pages and pictures for students to cut and paste as their final assessment. This student work then becomes documentation which can be submitted as a student work sample.
Concept created by Barbara Monday, SLP; Floyd County Schools
Template directions by Jessie Moreau, Gwinnett County Public Schools

3. Characters Characters are the people, animals
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Characters
Characters are the people, animals
or things that provide the action in a story.
Refer to the story to find the characters.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012

4. Setting The setting is where the story
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Setting
The setting is where the story
or events of the story takes place.
Refer to the story to find the settings.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012

5. Plot The plot is what happens in the story.
Name __________________________________ Date ________________
Plot
The plot is what happens in the story.
Refer to the story to find the plot/episodes.
MMcTek/2007 & JMoreau/2012

6. Character Setting Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Setting
Identify the character and corresponding setting and plot/event from 1 scene from the story.
Plot

7. Character Setting Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Setting
Identify the character and corresponding setting and plot/event from 1 scene from the story.
Plot

8. Character Setting Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Identify the corresponding character, setting and plot/event from 2 scenes from the story.
Plot

9. Character Setting Plot
Name ____________________________________________ Date _____________________
Identify the corresponding character, setting and plot/event from 2 scenes from the story.
Plot

10. Character pictures - color-coded set
Tom
Billy
Joe
Alan
Billy’s Dad
Billy’s Mom

11. Character pictures - color-coded set
friends
Billy and Alan
Joe and Alan
Billy and Tom
outside school
Billy, Joe and Alan
worm

12. Setting pictures - color-coded set
Billy’s house
in the dirt
at home and school
outside school

13. Setting pictures - color-coded set
parents’ bedroom
baseball game
tool shed
Billy’s bedroom
Billy’s window
the basket

14. 15 make a bet will eat 15 worms eats worms with ketchup & mustard
Plot pictures - color-coded set
make a bet
will eat 15 worms 15
eats worms with ketchup & mustard
feed Billy a worm
fries worm in cornmeal
eat hamburgers and candy

15. makes Whizbang Worm Sundae makes grilled cheese and worm sandwich
Plot pictures - color-coded set
makes Whizbang Worm Sundae
makes grilled cheese and worm sandwich
has nightmares about worms
calls
Poison Control
glue trick worm
forgets to eat a worm

16. opens door, let’s Billy out
Plot pictures/1 character picture - color-coded set
finds a raw worm
opens door, let’s Billy out
sends up worm in basket
eats the 15th worm
loses bet – pays $50
wins the bet