Writing About Plot Activities

A little while ago, I was working with a teacher who was having a difficult time helping his third-grade students write about one of the books they were reading in class. The problem was the students didn’t really understand the concept of plot. In many pays, the concept of plot is simple: it’s simply what happens in the story. But most children need more structure than such a simple definition provides. To help solve this problem, I gave the students an interactive writing activity on the computer.


The worksheet is fun and engaging, with characters the children can appreciate. Each screen has many numbers the children have to put in the correct order. Children find the next number in the sequence and drag it to the correct box. They continue dragging numbers until all the numbers are in the correct order. They can play over and over again since each time they play the numbers are scrambled. The teacher can make tens of problems in minutes, providing the children with a limitless number of ordering numbers problems.

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