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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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