3. What is Story Mapping? A story map is a visual depiction of the settings or the sequence of major events and actions of story characters. This procedure enables students to relate story events and to perceive structure in literary selections. By sharing personal interpretations of stories through illustrations, students increase their understanding and appreciation of selections. Story maps can be used as frameworks for storytelling or retelling, and as outlines for story writing. What is its purpose? to enhance students' interpretative abilities by enabling them to visualize story characters, events and settings to increase students' comprehension of selections by organizing and sequencing main story events to develop students' sense of story which will assist storytelling, retelling and writing to increase students' awareness that story characters and events are interrelated

4. When we use a STORY MAP as a pre- and post- reading activity, we can increase our reading comprehension. A story map is a graphic organizer that helps us to organize the information from the books that we read. Story maps can help us “find our way” through a book much like a regular map shows where things are.

5. The story map teaches us about story structure and the elements that make a good story. These elements correspond to the basic questions one would ask about any story: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW.

7. Name of storybook:____________________ Author:______________________________ Setting: When Where Characters: Who: Solution: Problem: Story Events: Beginning Middle End

29. Definition Academic Vocabulary Word Visual Example