1. Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for Developing a Plot Grade 5
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Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for
Developing a Plot
Grade 5

2. Fifth Grade
Writing: Standard 1.1a
Create multiple-paragraph narrative compositions: Establish and develop a situation or plot. 2

3. Basic Elements of a Story
Fifth Grade
Basic Elements of a Story
Setting: the place and time in which a story takes place
Characters: can be human or non-human as in animals. The action in the story happens to characters
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Plot: what happens- the action in the story or the sequence of events 3

4. Fifth Grade
Plot Elements
Problem – a problem is usually at the beginning of a story
Rising Action – the action in a story before the climax
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Climax – the most exciting part or high point of the story
Resolution – how the problem is solved 4

5. Fifth Grade
Plot Line
Climax
Rising Action
Resolution
Problem 5

6. Fifth Grade
In the story of Cinderella, Cinderella wants to go to the ball, but her evil stepsisters and stepmother prevented her from going.
A fairy godmother appeared and transformed her into a beautiful woman and sent her off to the ball. There she met a handsome prince.
At the stroke of midnight the magic spell wore off and Cinderella had to dash home before she was seen in rags. She lost her glass slipper in her rush to escape the ball.
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Later, the prince found Cinderella by matching her lost glass slipper to her foot. They married and lived happily ever after. 6

7. Fifth Grade
Plot Line
Climax
Rising Action
Resolution
Problem 7

8. Fifth Grade
Developing a Plot
Problem – create a clear problem to begin your story
Rising Action –write the sequence of events with details that lead up to the climax
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Climax – show the most exciting part of the story
Resolution – make your resolution fit with the rest of the story events and solve the problem 8