Teachers can introduce students to tools and techniques to help them remember the story elements. For
example, students can count them off, associating one element with each finger on their hand.
Story maps or graphic organizers can also be used to teach the parts of a story, such as:
• A chart that helps students match structure to content,
• A sequencing activity for younger students in which they rearrange a scrambled list of pictures to
accurately represent the sequence, or
• A diagram of the plot that connects major action points within the story