54 Story Trails

Grades: K5 Level of Difculty: Medium-Hard Overview

Students will develop the following reading strategies for this kind of graphic organizer:
Making personal connections Using prior knowledge Predicting Visualizing Making inferences

Medium Easy Hard

This graphic organizer offers a structure for students to use to put events from a story or the stages of an historical event into chronological order. Understanding of the key events facilitates greater exploration into the structure of the story. Are the events related by cause and effect, do they connect as situation-problem-solution, or is the story simply one of beginning-middle-end? Recording the text and visual images of the key events also enhances students comprehension.

Roger Roosevelt Name __________________________

Date

3/27/12 __________________________

STORY TRAILS
Harry gets a wand at Diagon Alley.

When you rst introduce students to Story Trails and History Maps (Graphic Organizer 55), select the key events, arrange them in chronological order, and instruct the students to reexamine these events for specic details that can be illustrated.

Harry Potter meets Hagrid who tells him hes a wizard.

The troll is defeated and the three friends are suspicious of Snape.

Harry is sorted into Gryndor and befriends Ron and Hermione.

Harry wins the Quidditch match.

The Sorcerers Stone is destroyed. 6

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55 History Map
Grades: K5 Level of Difculty: Easy-Medium-Hard
The History Map graphic organizer is similar to Graphic Organizer 54, Story Trails. See the overview and tips for classroom implementation for that graphic organizer.

Easy

Hard

Julie Cassidy Name __________________________

Date

3/3/12 __________________________

HISTORY MAP
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Boston Massacre killed dozens of British and Patriots

Stamp Act made many Patriots angry

3
Boston Tea Party protested the tea tax

4
British occupied Boston

5
Shots at Lexington and Concord

6
Declaration of Independance written

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