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Grade 5 English Language Arts · Level 2, Literary Reading & Analysis

Understand Story, Drama, and Poem Structure

Explain how chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together and contribute to the overall structure and development of a text.

How the lesson starts: Understand Story, Drama, and Poem Structure

1. All aboard!

   Toot toot! Conductor Oona the otter runs the Story Train. Every car carries one part of a story, and every part has a job. Take a car away, and the whole train falls apart.

2. Name the cars

   Different texts have different cars. A story is split into chapters. A drama, or play, is split into scenes. A poem is split into stanzas, groups of lines. Different names, same idea: parts that build the whole.

3. Let's match the jobs

   Here is the outline of Otto's story. Chapter 1: his map blows away before the race. That introduces the problem. Chapter 2: he searches three places. That shows the struggle. Chapter 3: he finds it just in time. That solves the problem.