1. Unlocking a Story
Ryan Plourde

2. Goals To understand the ideas of Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
To be able to identify the different parts of a story.
Common Core Standards Addressed RL2.1
5_Standards_Progression.pdf

3. What do these parts mean?
Breaking Down a Story
Stories can be broken down into many different parts.
Some of these parts are seen as the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of a story.
What do these parts mean?

4. Who! Who was involved in the story? Who are the characters*?
In Curious George, George (shown to the right) is one of the main characters, what is a main character?
*A character is an active entity (person, animal, object) within a story that helps drive the plot, a character can be anything from Ash Ketchum, to Spongebob to Lumière.

5. What What happened in the story? What is the plot*?
*The plot is the main events within a story, made by the author

6. When When does the story take place?
Does it take place during the day? At night? Did this story take place a year ago, or a hundred years ago?
Shown, 1930s New York City

7. Activity #1
Read the book The Three Little Pigs and work with your classmates to answer these questions
Who’s in this story?
What’s happening in this story?
When does this story take place?

8. Where
Where is the location of the story, or where it takes place!

9. Why
Why did it happen?
Why did the events that happened in the story, happen?
In Disney’s Aladdin why did Jafar want to marry Princess Jasmine?

10. How How did this happen? How was it done?
How did the characters react to the events in the story?

11. Activity #2
Go back to the Three Little Pigs and with your neighbors find out the following!
Where did the story take place?
Why did the Big Bad Wolf want to blow down the houses of the Three Little Pigs?
How did the Three Little Pigs stop him?